Tao, Katriel (Kathy)

Son of Bronislaw and Miriam. He was born on April 16, 1954 in Krakow, Poland. In January 1958, when he was three and a half, the family immigrated to Israel. Her first permanent apartment was in the Sela neighborhood of Ramat Yitzhak. He studied at the elementary school in Tel-Ganim. He was an alert and quick-paced child, and from an early age showed talent and agility in every handicraft. In the third grade he enrolled in a painting class. In 1966, the family moved to Karaon, where I enrolled in the Moshe Sharett school. His main interests were physics, mathematics, and electronics. In his pocket money, he bought old radio receivers, dismantled them and re-assembled them. He knew how to fix any home appliance that needed repair. There was an inexhaustible curiosity in him that pushed him to try, search, and realize everything. When he entered the son of-Zvi High School in Kiryat Ono, he began a new period and was an outstanding student in all fields, but especially in the real professions, he found a lot of interest in music, literature, and cinema. Pop was a handsome young man and a taller than any other member of his family, who had a sense of integrity and sensitivity to justice from an early age, was courageous and never hesitated to express his views, even popular and popular, On the many trips he used to climb on cliffs, enter deep caves and dangerous buildings to check “what’s in there.” He joined the Technion in Haifa for electrical engineering, studied and served in the army on a regular basis, and also treated the service with the utmost seriousness, characterized by nighttime running and developed his physical fitness. He was promoted to corporal. Near the end of the course, he was sent to a patrol and guard unit operating in the north. She traced the trail of a terrorist squad that infiltrated through the perimeter fence and intended to carry out a terror attack in Maalot. A chase began, but the squad took advantage of the darkness to avoid its pursuers. Finally the unit stormed the cell and wiped it out. But three of her friends paid with their lives, and I was among them. Thus he fell in battle – on the 18th of Elul 5734 (4.9.1974). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his parents and brother. The Municipality of Ma’alot decided to call a central square in the city for its three defenders. In Kearon, a public park was named after Kathy and his close friend Giora Hagai. A joint memorial booklet was also published in memory of the two and another friend, Dov Fishkov.