Shochat, Ezra

The son of Madame and Ravi. Ezra was born in Iran in April 1933. He was born to a family of five brothers and one sister, and at the age of thirteen he was orphaned from his father and forced to bear the burden of supporting the family with his older brother. In February 1951, with the opening of the gates of the State of Israel to world Jewry, the children and their mother joined the immigrants’ camp in order to learn a profession and prepare for their immigration to Israel, where he took part in six months of vocational training in the Carpentry Department. He chose Nes Tziona according to the recommendations of his relatives who had already immigrated to Israel. Ezra volunteered for the IDF. In this framework he held a series of combat and command roles. As an armored infantry soldier, he served in a number of operations and reprisals that gave him courage, a fighting spirit, rich military experience, social solidarity, command ability, moral values ​​and justice, On April 16, 1954, Ezra enlisted in the Border Police, and at the end of a crash course at the training base in Shfaram he was assigned to an operational unit of Company C in the Ramle area, where Ezra was a squad commander and participated in an operational activity. In 1954, Ezra married a wife In 1956 his first son, Moshe, was born, and his second son, Raphael, was born in 1960. Ezra’s wife, Ezra, said: “He was a loyal and devoted father, a perfect partner, a son and a brother who always stood for the good of the family which was the center of every issue.” Over the years, Ezra greatly improved his education and deepened his knowledge of the Hebrew language, and Sergeant-Rishon Ezra fell during the performance of his duties on 4 August 1968. He was thirty-five when he fell. He was buried in the cemetery in Nes Tziona. Survived by a wife, two children and a mother.