Shimshon, son of Tony and George-Isaac, was born on 17 February 1935 in Afula, his father, a gifted jurist, died when he was a child, and was sent to Tel Adashim and grew up as a son of the Erlich family After graduating from the elementary school in Tel Adashim, he moved with his mother to Ein Harod and studied at the kibbutz kibbutz high school, where he learned to love the country, its landscapes and its flora and fauna. In distant places, guided by the desire to see, study, and study, together with Meir Har-Zion, he established the “mansion” in Ein Harod, where he used to bring chicks and puppies from trips. And as a youth he became a walking legend, many of whom spoke as a researcher and a gifted young scientist, and his social activities were also a source of admiration for both young and old. He was a member of the kibbutz tours committee, and he wrote many times for the children’s magazine and rhymes for various things, his friends, and even his research, and was drafted into the IDF in mid-August 1953 and assigned to the Nahal Brigade. About a year after his enlistment, he volunteered to serve in a paratroop paratroop brigade, and in February 195 Shimshon was discharged from the IDF with the rank of sergeant and returned to Ein Harod, where he worked for two years in the cowshed. In 1957, he broke his arm during a parachute exercise while in reserve duty, and while he was in the hospital he met Ayala, the nurse who treated him, and their period of friendship was filled with letters full of humor, joy of life and tender love. The two married and moved to Kiryat Amal and from there to Moshav Alroy. In addition to managing his economy, he worked at the “Oranim” seminar in the treatment of the animal corner. In 1962 his eldest son Nir was born, and in 1966 his son Gilad was born. Shimshi was an excellent paratrooper and an excellent tour guide. During his reserve service he participated in Operation Kadesh, the Six Day War and the War of Attrition. Even after he was wounded in the back and underwent surgery, he continued to drop and refused to change his medical profile, even though he had to sleep on the floor. During the occupation of Nitzana, Shimshon was injured in special circumstances: he entered IDF soldiers in Nitzana at 4:00 AM When an enemy soldier discovered an injured Arab soldier in one of the tents he took him out of the tent to water him and helped him, He was lying for a long time in the Tel Hashomer hospital, and one day when his mother came to visit him, he asked to take him in a wheelchair to see the wounded Arab who had been rescued. : “We went into the villages, and while everyone else was busy with other things, I collected chickens.” Shimshi was admitted to the faculty In biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the family moved to the capital and lived in Kiryat Yovel, where he completed his matriculation exams in the third year of his studies at the university, and his teacher, Prof. Zohari, once said to him: “Be careful not to have a Nobel Prize before you have a matriculation certificate.” In 1971, he published an article on the subject of embryology in his field of specialization, where he was awarded a bachelor’s degree and then a master’s degree, where he worked on his doctoral studies, taught at the university’s science faculty, and twice sent the university abroad for research trips to the Netherlands, Belgium and Yugoslavia. After his fall, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1976 for his work in the field of embryology of birds. Shemesh loved music, literature and art. From his youth he collected Hebrew songs from the time of the First Aliya until World War. He was active onAll aspects of public work, and in his unit in the army was a central figure, a sort of “amulet” of the unit. He knew how to take care of his men and treated them with authority, but out of friendship and a lot of humor, which was special to him. He would say, “I am the mascot of the unit, they look at me like a poster, how can I disappoint them and not go, and when there is a war, my job is to take care of the sanitation? If I did not go out with my unit, everyone would have a dysentery.” Shimshi was a devoted father, an excellent teacher and educator for his two sons. After his fall, his eldest son Nir said, “The worst thing for my little brother is that he will not be able to get everything that Dad gave me.” When the Yom Kippur War broke out, and Shamshi was thirty-eight, his name was not included in the list of recruits. He did not give up, until his superiors agreed to him and returned him to his unit. In the last postcard to his mother he wrote: “I have to help and be with my friends, who I have been associated with for twenty years … We can help each other …”. Laila managed to reach the West Bank of the Suez Canal, a tough battle took place on the “Tartur-Lexicon” junction, south of the Chinese Farm. The intersection and the axis were essential because of the need to move the cylinder bridge through them. At 3:00 AM on October 16, 1973, a force of the reconnaissance battalion was ordered to break into the junction and purge the Tartar axis from west to east, and after the force succeeded in passing the junction it was opened with heavy fire from a tank And was brought to rest at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, where he left behind a wife, two sons and a mother, and was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant, In which his multi-sided personality was recounted, songs from his collection “Songs of the Homeland” were read, and a television movie was screened. The book on Samson, published in Jerusalem, gives a wide picture of his scientific work and his radiant personality, and in the library of the Department of Zoology at the Hebrew University, a reading room for students was opened in 1975 in the name of Samson. In addition, a foundation was set up to award student scholarships, which deal with research areas close to Shimshon’s field of activity
