Tabak (Shkolnik), Alexander

Son of Yitzhak and Eugenia. Born in 1946 in the Soviet Union, his father, who was a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army, fell in the Second World War and his mother was a doctor, who spent his childhood in Russia where he graduated from elementary and high school. At the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, but at the outbreak of the Six-Day War he left school because he found no rest for himself and asked to enlist in the IDF. He enlisted in the IDF in August 1967. He joined the IDF and explained to his stepfather: “I justify two wars: World War II, while the Russians fought against the Germans and the Six-Day War … Well, I decided to fight Against the Arabs during the existence of our state. ” He completed an officers’ course and was an excellent soldier and an excellent commander who was loved by all his subordinates and commanders. On the 24th of Marcheshvan 5726 (26.10.1969), he died of his wounds, which was injured the previous day during the shelling of an enemy in the area of ​​the Suez Canal. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Netanya. After his fall, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant.