Sussan, Shlomo (Sami)

Shlomo (Sami), son of Haviva and David, was born on March 4, 1947, in Casablanca, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1955. He first studied in his hometown, at the Alliance school, Pina and Atlit, and continued his studies at Beit HaKikkid and the Technion in Haifa. Shlomo was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement and was an avid sports enthusiast, especially for basketball, table tennis and boxing. He received many certificates attesting to his good achievements. He spent many hours on the shore of Atlit, where he learned to love the sea and its expanses. He had the soul of an artist and a poet, and from time to time he drew landscapes, sketched, and wrote poems. He loved the songs of Rabindranath Tagouri “and read them again and again, for love of nature and man was one of the foundations of his soul. Shlomo was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-November 1964 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he was trained as a disciplined, responsible and dedicated soldier, and took part in various operational activities, which earned him the “Operational Service Award.” Who served in the IDF during the 1967 war and was awarded the “Six Day War.” During his entire army service, he tried not to worry about his family, and in the letters he made sure to write home he told us nothing about the hard training and the field life Shlomo was an excellent professional in the field of computer programming, bookkeeping and drafting He worked at the Discount Bank branch in Haifa and was a quality controller in the military industry, and was loved by everyone – his colleagues and his superiors – all of whom knew him as a humble and God-fearing man who did not interfere in the affairs of others. He was a serious and serious man, and his ambition to learn and his willingness to go deeper was to be known among his friends: He believed in every person, believed in goodness, in his shoes and in righteousness. He was a true man, honest, conscientious, a kind man, He devoted many hours to his public work as a community worker in Atlit. He organized the children of the neighborhood into sports activities and made them proud of their colony and their achievements in football and basketball. In 1971 he married his girlfriend Judith Licha. He was a loyal son of his parents, a devoted husband to his wife and a father who loved his little son, Ziv. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Shlomo was drafted and sent with his unit to the front in Sinai. For twelve days he fought in the battle against the Egyptians, until he was killed on October 18, 1973, in a battle on the Purden Bridge, west of the Canal. A Katyusha rocket hit his tank and he was killed on the spot. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife and son, parents and five sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Shlomo, who served as a crew member of a tank in the armored unit under my command, was loved by his commanders and friends and fulfilled his duties loyally and impeccably.”