Tessler, Elazar
Elazar (Eli), the son of Martha and David, was born on 25.10.1951 in Jerusalem. He attended the “Uziel” elementary school in Jerusalem, where he studied at the Himmelfarb High School in Jerusalem. Elazar was a diligent student at the elementary school and had excellent grades. He was a disciplined boy and was arrested, yet was involved in all the events in the school. In high school, he excelled in his studies, especially in mathematics, and earned the prestige of his teachers. From his youth he was active in the Gadna and during the Six-Day War he helped as a stretcher at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem and was a member of the religious Scouts movement and took part in all social activities and trips around the country. The youth of the school and the youth movement Eli was a tall, strong man with blond hair and green eyes, he was very active in sports, he was interested in sports and he was a fan of swimming and basketball, and he was preparing to study economics and statistics at the Hebrew University Elazar was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of February 1970 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade. After basic training, he completed a parachuting course and was assigned to a commando unit as a rifleman. After completing his commanding course, he served in the position of a noncommissioned gunner in a rifle company and participated with his unit in ambushes and marshes in the Jordan Valley and in tours in Hebron and Gaza, and participated in operational activities in the Golan Heights. He completed his military service and was sent to reserve duty in the paratroopers’ battalion and returned to civilian life. His pre-academic studies, twenty days before the Yom Kippur War broke out Yeforim married his girlfriend from the youth movement, and they only had a “honeymoon” in Nahariya when the Yom Kippur War broke out and Elazar was called to his unit, taking part in the battle against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and fighting in the enclave. (October 14, 1973), was killed and killed in an artillery shelling on the Yair axis, from a shell that hit a dugout, where his half-track was. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. He left behind a wife, parents and two twin brothers. In his fall his rank was a sergeant. His parents donated a Torah scroll to the synagogue where he prayed; The Hebrew University published a book called “Nizkor” in memory of its graduates who fell in the war.
