Tzalach, Shaul

Son of Azat and Miriam. He was born on the 16th of Sivan 5761 (16.6.1951) in Petah Tikva. He studied at the Aleph State School in Nes Ziona and continued his studies in high school, also in Nes Ziona. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement and was an excellent and enthusiastic athlete in the Nes Tziona football division. The teacher of his class and his teacher wrote that from the beginning of his footsteps he was among the best students in the class. He was an orderly student, fulfilled all his obligations with precision and thoroughness, and never made do with textbooks, because he always wanted to expand his knowledge by reading auxiliary books that his parents did not spare. He was always quiet and humble and did not take his good grades. He had never done a job and was always looking for more and more, lest he find anything else to deepen his knowledge and expand it. He treated his teachers politely, obediently and with respect, and never refused to do anything. His classmates saw him as a devoted and loyal adviser, and the teacher knew that there was someone to turn to when needed, because he knew how to bridge, with special talent, between teachers and students. Moro in high school wrote that Shaul was a different student than most of his friends in his ability to judge and character. He did not learn from a desire to get a good grade and make the same impression as the rest of the students. “I do not remember Saul taking pride in Zion, or haggling over him and challenging him, his main interest being the achievement, in the light of his own self-criticism, The things he thought were just. ” He was naturally quiet and withdrawn. Sometimes he would act rigidly and stubbornly about the self-discipline that was inherent in him, but in his mind he was gentle and soft and kind. When he finished thinking about the way he chose, he always did it in an original way, both in his studies and in his relationship with his friends. Before he enlisted in the IDF, he decided that he would serve in an elite combat unit on the day of enlistment and chose a difficult and dangerous military service. After completing basic training, he was sent to a course for squad commanders and then to train a new generation of soldiers in the IDF, and on September 30, 1972, Corporal Shaul fell in an ambush in the Jordan Valley while carrying out his duties. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Kfar Aharon. After falling, his battalion commander wrote in a condolence letter to his parents: “I knew your son personally, at a time when he was guiding younger soldiers. He stood out for his leadership, his peace of mind, and his security, and his soldiers seemed willing to recognize him as a commander and a friend. In the field he excelled in the perception and logic of his mind. I wanted to leave him as an officer in the unit, to see him as a commander in the battalion. “After his fall, the Nes Ziona soccer division announced to his family that they would commemorate Shaul by establishing a group of children in soccer called Shaul.