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Shmueli, Ze’ev (“Zevik”)

Shmueli, Ze’ev (“Zevik”)


Son of Mordechai and Rivka. He was born on April 25, 1945 in Haifa. He completed his studies at Ma’ale Hacarmel Elementary School. He was a member of the youth movement of Hashomer Hatzair. He was quiet and modest, and although a smile hung on his lips, he was always surrounded by devoted friends and friends, in a quiet and modest tone in which he could keep away quarrels and quarrels, In October 1963 he was drafted into the IDF and with his friends he went to the Nahal Brigade, where he played the role of the Center for the Defense of the Jews, After the training period, he reached advanced training, and he had a special physical fitness and a sense of duty and conscience He was well-liked by the members, because he knew how to encourage his colleague and to maintain the high morale of the members of the group. At the beginning of the days of the Six-Day War, Ze’ev was called to the flag as he was called to reserve duty, and he hoped that nothing would happen, and from his letter written one day before, Koren fell into a high morale, Get caught up in panic. However, the next day, on the second day of the battles, he was 26 Iyar 5727 (6.6.1967), fell in a battle held in Sanhedria in Jerusalem, the capital. When they were in a mortar position, an enemy shell was hit directly. Put a wife and a daughter who was not a year old in the fall of her father. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Kibbutz Metzer published a booklet in his memory entitled “Zevik”. In the book “Marinas Gabro” of the Paratroopers Command were brought his history and description of his last battle. Also in the booklet 53 “of them” was the story of his life and death.

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