Timofeyev, Yevgeny (Apa)

Son of Anna and Olga. He was born on May 7, 1986 in Kazakhstan, the former Soviet Union. Brother Lori. Yevgeny-Genia in his mother’s mouth-was a cute, hearty boy. His mood was always cheerful, and it was pleasant to be with him. He seemed to want to do it all in a short time; he began to speak at a very early age, and at the age of one year he was uttering whole sentences. The walk also started early, already at the age of ten months, as his way hurried. Yevgeny began his studies in an elementary school in his hometown of Kazakhstan. He had a lot of joy and was surrounded by many friends. Sometimes it seemed that he was torn between wanting to be with friends and at the same time doing other things. Be that as it may, Yevgeny found it difficult to sit in one place for more than a minute, and more than once, because of the speed with which he worked, he was injured and injured. For example, he broke one of his hands twice! Yevgeny’s main hobbies were spending time with friends, listening to electronic music and heavy rock, and reading books. As a science fiction lover, he was deeply influenced by the book “Being a Dragon” by the Russian writer Pavel Shumilov – a story about a dragon called “Apa” that reached today’s world from another planet and another time dimension in the time tunnel. The period in which Afa lived – the Middle Ages – was difficult and dark and his life was under constant threat. When it became clear that he had only a few years to live before he was killed, he turned himself into a dragon with human qualities and a human mind, and decided to devote himself to humanity. He sought to provide help to humans by means of the existing technological means and the fact that he was an unidentified dragon with strong powers. The influence of the book “Being a Dragon” on Yevgeny was so intense, and his identification with the content so great that he nicknamed himself “Apa,” and that nickname continued to accompany him in the coming years. Yevgeny’s father left the family for a few years, and his mother raised the two brothers alone. Yevgeny abundance of love and appreciation to the mother and to his last day cared for her very much. His brother Yuri, nine years his senior, admired and tried to emulate him in everything. The relationship between the two was exceptional and unique – Yuri served as Yevgeny’s friend, brother and father, and the two spent a lot together. Yevgeny used to call Yuri “my brother” instead of naming him. In the winter of 2000 Yevgeny immigrated to Israel with his mother, a year after Yuri immigrated to Israel. Yuri, who fought in Chechnya as a soldier in the Russian army, knew the bitter taste of the war, and decided to prevent his brother from suffering the suffering he experienced. “The war was so terrible,” Yuri recalled, “that when I returned I decided not to let my brother fight like I did in the Russian army, and I brought him to Israel.” The family settled in Ashdod, where Yevgeny entered seventh grade. During the eighth and twelfth grades he performed at the “Kanot” youth village in the Shfela, an agricultural school belonging to the stream of educational education, and completed his studies in computers and mathematics. He learned the Hebrew language quickly, acquired many friends and was the favorite of the girls, loved all his family, friends, relatives and neighbors, did not miss Russia and did not speak of his former life at all, as if he had completely severed ties with the past. Yevgeny was a very happy and friendly man. Our house always had a lot of friends. “Yevgeny spent a lot of time on computers, loved his occupation and everything related to him, and in general – he was attracted to mechanics and technical fields, and was very interested in vehicles, especially tractors.” He was able to talk about them For hours, “his mother says, it was clear to Yevgeny that he would serve as a combat soldier, and that his ambition was to act as a bulldozer operator.But Yevgeny was determined, and she respected his will. When he was drafted on August 3, 2004, Yevgeny was placed in the engineering corps and began training as a mechanical engineer, and at the end he was assigned to the “Hamachatz” battalion and served as a 9-D bulldozer operator exactly as he wanted. His brother, with experiences from his military world, but spared the worrisome details of his mother, who has not known peace since he was drafted, says Yevgeny: “Yevgeny waited impatiently to join the army. From day one he wanted combat service. He was a real soldier, he loved the army and what he did and wanted to sign a permanent contract, but worried about his mother he decided to give up his military career. “During his service, Yevgeny used to talk to his mother every day and tried to calm her fears, Where he showed her the great and impressive tool he had put in. “He never said he was afraid of anything,” the mother notes, and Yevgeny was very fond of his comrades in the company, who spoke of the funny guy who was “a man who looked like a kid” “And that” he was very optimistic. “Yevgeny spent his short vacations with his many friends, with his girlfriend Irena, and above all with his brother Aho B. Anna says: “Wherever Yevgeny came, he felt at home. Sometimes the friends would come to him in the evening. From the room there were voices of music and conversations, and in the morning, when I came to look, I saw four or five people who stayed overnight. “Yevgeny’s social connections crossed testimony and sectors – he had friends of Russian origin, native-born friends, and Ethiopian immigrants. In the center of things, singing, dancing. Sometimes I called him in the army and heard how he was having fun with the guys … “Yevgeny’s dream was to study computers at the university, and he even set up a website for the company where the members published poems and stories from their own lives. One of them also included his mother, who planned to take her for walks: in the winter – to pick up the snow so that she would see snow, and in the summer – to Eilat, where she had never been.Yevgeny hoped he would find a lucrative job so that he could build his life, “When the Second Lebanon War broke out, Yevgeny and his battalion immigrated to Lebanon, and his comrades recalled:” Before the war in Lebanon we fought in Gaza. The night before we were rushed to Lebanon, we were on fire. Yevgeny concluded that he would call his mother twice a day and update him on his condition, knowing that she was very worried. Lebanon On the last day of the Second Lebanon War, on August 13, 2006, at the age of 20. A few hours before the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbollah came into effect, Yevgeny moved by bulldozing the D-9 in the Ramim ridge area, The village of Qantara in the eastern sector, leveling the road from cargoes and opening roads to the fighting forces, an anti-tank missile fired by Hizballah directly hit the bulldozer, and Grounds killed on the spot. People fell Sergeant (Ret) David Amar. Deaths, the number of fallen soldiers in the war hundred and eighteen. “Last Thursday Yevgeny called me and told me that he was fighting in Lebanon together with his comrades in the battalion, and asked me not to worry,” Mom, “he said,” do not worry, everything will be all right. ” That the bulldozer he is operating is well armored, and that there is no danger to him. “Promise me you will not leave,” she asked, and Yevgeny promised. The friends said: “When we learned that we were going to Lebanon, the fear crept into our hearts, but no one dared to demonstrate his fearsWe have no doubt about the unambiguous ability of the Sagger missile, like the one that hit the driver’s cabin where Yevgeny was sitting. “Yevgeny, who lived only two decades, left many loves and friends, but mainly plans and dreams he wanted to touch. “Yevgeny was a man with the soul of an enthusiastic child,” his mother wrote, “it hurts me to write ‘he,’ because for me he exists and will always be my little son.” In April 2007, Yizhoni’s mother was interviewed by Yedioth Ahronoth and told her son: “Genia really wanted to go to combat. They were also killed because they were racing forward, and maybe they were not always careful, because Genia was very proud when they took him to combat engineering, and I did not want to refuse him because he felt at home in Israel, … Even after what happened, I did not regret that we immigrated to Israel, I raised two children alone, and if they took him to the army there, I’m not sure that if something had happened to him, his commander would have bothered to come and tell me something. To feel they were worth something. … Genia had amazing friends and commanders whom he admired. He knew he appreciated him and was glad he was learning to do something. … Sometimes they ask me if it’s not upsetting that Genia fell right at the end of the war, and I answer – did the mothers whose sons fell at the beginning of the war feel lighter …? “Yevgeny was immortalized in the” Riders for Israel ” A bicycle trip to commemorate and commemorate the fallen of the Second Lebanon War, initiated by the “Dvoka – Nature of Riders” website, the “Eretz Nehederet” organization and the group of riders on the field, and the fifty-five kilometers between Shoket Junction and Arad. The world does not like soldiers like they do here, and they do not remember them as they do here. “