Toren (Taron) Tuvia

Tuvia, son of Regina and Aryeh, was born on the 20th of Tevet 5689 (11.1.1939) in Lodz, Poland. Tuvia was drafted into the IDF in August 1957 and assigned to the Armored Corps, where he was trained as a tank crew, later appointed a tank commander, and later completed his officers’ course and completed his regular service as a tank commander with the rank of lieutenant. He completed his studies as an engineer, and in the last year he was also a physics and mathematics teacher at the “Reali” school in Haifa, where he continued his studies for a master’s degree and in the same year served as a teacher at the Yad Natan School of Agricultural Mechanics In 1968 he was appointed director of Yad Natan, and in this capacity he served for two years The school is located in the “Samet” near the Technion. From his experience, Tuvia learned that Jews must trust their power and should not rely on anyone. Therefore, the IDF viewed the IDF as the sole insurer for the people in its land and gave the IDF the best of its strength. His promotion in the army as a reservist was impressive. At the end of his regular service he was a lieutenant and commanded a tank division. In the Six-Day War he was already a company commander and during the Yom Kippur War he served as battalion commander, and Tuvia excelled in the field of activity: “He was one of the pioneers,” said one of his school teachers. “If there had been many like him in the army,” a member of the armed forces said of him for many years, “we would not have had a disaster Yom Hakkipurim War. The state was saved by the right of commanders and fighters as a good. He led his men as an excellent commander, in difficult and bitter moments, and indeed thanks to him and thanks to his help. His soldiers admired him for his courage, honesty, and ability to lead them. They knew that he was unmatched in everything that mattered to the fighting, the maintenance of weapons and tanks. In these matters he never gave up. Many thought he was a military man in all his limbs and loved the life of the army, but he did not, he simply took care of the army’s strength, knowing that this was the stronghold of the Jewish people. ” Tuvia took charge of the school at Sammat, when the school was on the brink of crisis, and no one believed that the young manager, who was so different from the usual type of manager, could cope with the difficult problems he faced. And thanks to the thoroughness that characterized his approach to solving problems and his discretion, he managed to impose order and establish new frameworks for daily work, which led to the institution’s flourishing and prosperity. And he did not hesitate to go deeper and learn every problem inherently, so his decisions were always sound and correct They were part of the school landscape, though he seemed to be a tough man at timesWas not ready to help, to facilitate and to assist in practice and with good advice. During the thirty-four years of his life he managed to climb through the ranks of the IDF command on the one hand and in the education system on the other, when he was still in the field of education and was full of plans for the future. , But paid the price of victory in his life On October 16, 1973, Tuvia was hit by shrapnel from a shell and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left behind a wife and two sons, a mother and a brother. After his fall, his school published a booklet in memory of Tuvia, which included the words of his friends, students and loved ones about his character and his work; The “Yad Natan” school is named after the Culture Room in its name, and in the “Sammat” school the gymnasium is named after him.