Smoocha, Yitzhak (Fauzi)

Yitzhak, son of Nazim and Rina Smoocha, was born on the 15th of Iyar 5708 (May 15, 1948) in Iraq. He immigrated to Israel at the age of three with his family and lived in the Kiryat Ono transit camp. In 1957 he moved to Bnei Brak, where he studied at the Komemiyut School in Tel Giborim, Bnei Brak, and then studied for one year. Yitzhak was drafted into the IDF in February 1966 and served in the Armored Corps. In the midst of compulsory service, the Six-Day War broke out and Yitzhak fell in a battle south of the Rafah junction, on the first day of the fighting, 26 Iyar, June 26, 1967. He was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. A Torah scroll was donated in the “Tiferet Yisrael” Synagogue in Pardes Katz, in the Bnei Brak in his memory.