Tahor, Shalom

Son of Rahamim and Yehudit. He was born on February 27, 1957, in Tiberias, to a family that immigrated from Tunis. As a child he suffered from child paralysis, but overcame the illness when he was three. On August 5, 1975, Shalom was drafted into the IDF, carrying” combat “aspirations. In his service, his jeep overturned, and Shalom was hit in the head, and intense headaches began to haunt him, and he suffered from blurred vision. Surgery was performed at the Tel Hashomer Hospital, but the doctors’ efforts to save him were in vain. He took a piece of paper and sent a promise to his mother that “everything would be all right, Mother,” and then lost consciousness for eight months, unconscious in intensive care, with fever rising and falling. He died on 25 November 1978. He was buried at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, 21 years old, and left behind his parents, brother and three sisters.