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Weksler, Paltiel

Weksler, Paltiel


Son of Jacob and Mina. He was born on September 23, 1932, in the city of Ploiesta, Romania. In 1940, the family immigrated to Israel on an illegal immigration ship after a long journey. For a short time she became involved in the life of the country and even acquired the Hebrew language. His first years in Israel were spent in Tel Aviv, where he attended the Balfour elementary school and belonged to the Scout movement. After moving to Ramat Gan, he began studying in the municipal high school there until his graduation. Where he also began his pre-military service in the Gadna, where he served as a liaison in the midst of the War of Independence and after the establishment of the state, passed one of the first courses of a military commander. During his regular service in the IDF, his reserve duty and more recently his career as lieutenant colonel, he included his participation in the battles of Tel al-Mutila and even in the Sinai Campaign, seeing his future in the career army as an officer’s course and a training course for artillery officers. He worked as an electrician in an advertisement, but his art was discovered in painting and photography, and he specialized in painting on clay, in landscape photography and in children, and he had a field of interest in history and especially in military history and weapons. They tend to listen attentively and offer them a helping hand, and he is able to conceal it by a worn-out daughter who has never considered the injury On November 17, 1957, he died and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, and his parents founded him in his library for soldiers at Tel Hashomer Hospital. The parents are a benevolent fund in his memory in cooperation with the Chabad synagogue in Ramat Gan.

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