Tori , Shimon

Shimon, son of Sophia and Gedaliah (Turkeltaub), was born on March 11, 1934, in Novidor, near Warsaw, Poland, and was born as a firstborn son to his parents. He used to divide roles in the game for each child and briefly explained the rules of the game. He never needed repeated explanations when he was assigned a task because he immediately “caught” the first explanation of what he should do, and spent the first five years of his life comfortably and pleasantly in the bosom of his family The Second World War changed his life, and the family was forced to flee from Nazi terror to the Soviet Union Bati of Poland, the family marched five kilometers before they crossed the border, and Shimon behaved like a model and did not complain of fatigue or pain, and when the Germans fired light rockets Shimon would fall to the ground with all of them. At the end of the war, the family returned to Poland and Shimon attended a Polish school there. A year later the family emigrated to France where he learned the French language, which was the fourth of the languages ​​he already knew. Shimon immigrated to Israel with his family in 1949 and was accepted to the Hadasim Youth Center where the children of immigrants from all over the world studied. Thanks to his willpower and rapid perception he overcame the difficulties of the fifth language, Hebrew, and even learned the sixth language, English. A year later he was accepted to the Kugel High School in his hometown, Holon. Shimon wanted to go to study at the Technion in Haifa, but because of his family’s difficulties in earning a living, and due to his consideration of his two brothers and sister, who also wanted to study, he decided to choose a profession in which he could specialize during his military service. Shimon was drafted into the IDF in the middle of August 1954 and assigned to the Armored Corps during his service in the 1956 Kadesh War, where he fulfilled his duties effectively and responsibly. After completing his army service, he was assigned to a reserve unit of the Armored Corps and was sometimes called for periods of active reserve duty. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Shimon was called upon to fulfill his duty in his unit. On the 23rd of November, 1973, he fell in the line of duty. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his wife, son and daughter, parents, two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant.