Solomon, Yehezkel

Son of Shlomo and Leah. He was born on July 9, 1947 in Bombay, India. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1949. He studied at the Katznelson School in Kfar Sirkin and completed his studies at the Neveh Kibush Elementary School in Petah Tikva. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and also of Hapo’el Petah Tikva, because he loved football more than any other game. After graduating from elementary school, he studied at Amal High School in Petah Tikva. Yehezkel was drafted into the IDF in August 1966. On August 17, 1969, he fell in the line of duty when he boarded a mine at the top of Mount Hermon. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. One of the officers in the battalion wrote to his family in a letter describing Yehezkel during three years of service in the battalion: “Days of war, weeks of exhausting training in the Golan and the Jordan valley, and long months of ongoing operational activity on the front lines – Securing roads and breaking new roads on Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights – ways to achieve our presence in the area, ways to maintain routine security, and served in the IDF out of desire and recognition, while exploiting all the resources of body and soul. He would blink with fatigue and continue to serve diligently and faithfully as a liaison, a driver and a battalion commander at the same time, with his natural intelligence, his sense of look and a mischievous smile in his eyes.