Sofer, Aryeh

Sofer, Aryeh

Son of Eliyahu and Roza. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 2, 1943, the family immigrated to Israel in 1951. Aryeh graduated from the Rothschild elementary school in Or Akiva and then studied for two years in the school He studied athletics for two years and was drafted into the IDF in February 1961. After his discharge he was called from time to time to reserve duty. At the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he fought in the framework of an engineering company with loyalty and devotion and fell in a battle that took place near Jenin on the second day of its battles, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967) When they were hit by shrapnel from a Jordanian tank. He was buried in the military cemetery in Nahariya and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa. The engineering company in the Barak formation published a booklet whose name is mentioned among the rest of its fall. His commander wrote in his memory: “Aryeh was a veteran of the company and its founders, a quiet, modest and humble person, a personal example of his devotion to the task, discipline, and precision in carrying out the work he had taken upon himself. “

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