Shmuel, son of Sarah-Rivka and Ratzon, was born on April 10, 1936 in Tel Aviv, and fell in a bombardment west of the Canal on October 21, 1973. Shmulik’s parents immigrated to Israel from Yemen and settled in Tel Aviv, in the barracks that were established to absorb the immigra. In May 1953, Shmulik was drafted into the IDF as a driver and was assigned to the Supply Corps, but he volunteered for the combat unit and was assigned to the famous paratroopers unit a month later. The training was exhausting and the operational activities were numerous. The tension and danger accompanied the service in this corps. Shmulik took part in many activities, which remain silent today. In one of the retaliatory raids on the fedayeen bases in Gaza, he was wounded and spent two months in a military hospital. When he left the hospital, he wrote in his diary, “I went back to the company.” When he was offered an easy position in another unit, he refused to leave the company, but returned to the company and completed a course for commanders. “In 1958, when the” red beret “club was founded, Shmulik was among the enthusiastic supporters and founders of the club, whose members were involved in skydiving. , Which Xian was the first group skydiving in the country, when the Six-Day War broke out Shmulik was among the liberators of the Old City and one of the first liberators of the Temple Mount, and at the end of the campaign for the liberation of Jerusalem, the Chief of Staff gave him a souvenir of the Old City Coin, the Lions Gate pin and an aerial photograph of the Old City and its environs To liberate the Israeli capital from the enemy. In his civil life, he did not freeze, and in 1964 he married his girlfriend Naomi and they both established a warm nest that served as a meeting place and a source of joy for many friends and friends. Shmulik spent days and days working as a driver in the Tel Aviv municipality and later as a taxi driver and bus driver, and he did not refuse any work to achieve his goal.Pit with his family to a more spacious apartment, and devoted his efforts to this end. In the course of time, the second son, Ilan, was born, and their narrow room could not accommodate the family of four. Shmulik raised loans on loans, managed to buy an apartment for his family in Yad Eliyahu in Tel Aviv, and the joy was great. Later, his third son, Menashe, was born. To Shmulik it was a pleasure to be proud of his children, to talk about them and tell their antics. Shmulik loved his wife Naomi, boasted of his children and was Simcha at home. He spoiled everyone, did not mind the housework, and was very helpful to his wife, Naomi, in running the house and raising the children. As for his parents, this is a series of close relationships, love and endless admiration. “Every day he would visit his parents and ask for their welfare and try to take care of their convenience.” Shmulik loved poetry and music, was a stamp collector, liked to read thriller books, loved to swim and play sports. When the Yom Kippur War broke out he rushed home from the synagogue several times, with the prayer shawl wrapped around his body, to see if he had received a summons. It was a wonder to him that it was time for the “prayer of closing” in the synagogue and the end of the fast was approaching, the news of the war had already been carried out in the afternoon, and how could it still be called the flag? At the end of the fast he took his wife and children and went from his parents’ home to his home in Yad Eliyahu. He did not wait for the lunch to end, if the order had come home and he was still here. To his disappointment, the order did not come. Suddenly, his friend and friend Naftali telephoned, “Please, Shmulik, let’s help disperse the cars of the Tel Aviv municipality from the parking lot, lest a bomb be thrown into the car and the vehicle will be packed in one place.” Shmulik came and went to work with all his might and energy. Suddenly his friend Yehezkel Katan, his friend from the paratroopers unit, phoned Shaul and asked why they had not received the draft order. The two of them decided to go to the brigade and enlist themselves without an order from above. and so it was. A few hours later you saw Shmulik driving in the ambulance for the prairie, heading toward the canal. As usual, he was not left behind. And in one of the enemy attacks on the force crossing the canal, Shmulik was injured along with his two good friends, Moshe Fuchs and a small Ezekiel, in one of the trenches that had been hidden there by the massive bombardment. Where the thread of their lives was sealed on the 25th of Tishrei 5734 (21.10.1073), 37 years old at the time of his death. Shmulik was brought for burial at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery, at the family’s request. Shmulik was promoted to First Sergeant after he fell.
