Tsanani, Haim

Son of Shalom and Shulamit. He was born in the month of March 1938 in the city of Ar’am in Yemen (the name “Tzanani” was given to the whole family, from the ancestors of Chaim, who lived in Sana’a, But this fact did not stop him from visiting the small yeshiva of a single Yemenite rabbi and buying a Torah name, and his pious family rejoiced at the eldest son who excelled in holy studies, and when the news of the establishment of the State of Israel began, From there to Israel, and the Tsanani family arrived in Israel in 1949. It was one of the first in Operation Magic Carpet (there were already two brothers of the father of the family who immigrated for five years The family was transferred to the Beit-Lid camp, and during the half-year of their stay, Haim attended the Mizrachi school there, and was later brought to the Beit Yosef Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. But when his parents were transferred to the Herzliya transit camp and were housed in a small shack, their distress increased and Haim was forced to leave his studies and come to their aid, and then he learned that plumbing, For a small wage, and when he acquired the profession he worked in it and earned the family’s agriculture. He belonged to the Hanoar Haoved movement and initiated activities there. He was also a member of the Gadna, and was interested in establishing a youth branch in his neighborhood in Herzliya, and he had a good influence on all his friends in his cheerfulness and good spirit. He loved the homeland and was ready for any dangerous role, especially when he was drafted into the IDF, served in the armored corps and volunteered for every position and course. Completed a course of class commanders. Upon the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign, he went to fight and fell in battle at Abu-Agila on the 26th of Mishvan 5710 (October 31, 1956). He was buried in the Military Cemetery of the Emergency Army in Shelah and on the 28th of Tishrei 5718 (23.10.1957) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.