Yachimovich, Assaf

Son of Hanina and Chaya, members of Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha. He was born on the 11th of Adar 1939 in Petach Tikvah. When he moved to Petach Tikvah, he continued to study at the PICA elementary school in the city, and Assaf completed the Max Payne Professional School as a mechanical-mechanical workshop. During his studies, he completed a course for battalion commanders in the Gadna. As a member of the Mahanot Ha’olim movement, Assaf joined the “Omarim” nucleus, which was supposed to reinforce Kibbutz Misgav-Am. Assaf played a lot of sports, especially basketball and swimming. For a certain period of time he was a player in Hapoel’s football team. Assaf was drafted into the IDF in mid-October 1957 and joined the Nahal Brigade. After basic training he was in the Ketziot outpost. From there the members of the group moved to Kibbutz Gvat for a period of formation and after a few months to Kibbutz Misham Am. When he went into operational employment, Assaf was added to the Paratroopers Brigade. In April 1960, Assaf was released from regular service and decided to leave the farm and build his future in the city, where he was hired as a metalworker in the Elko factory and then transferred to IMI. He married Haya, his longtime girlfriend, and over the years the couple had three daughters. The family moved to Dimona and stayed there for three years, and eventually settled in Rishon Letzion. Assaf was hired as a driver at Egged. He bought him many friends and friends and was popular with all his acquaintances for his loyalty and his attitude to work in general and to the traveling public in particular. Every so often he was called up for reserve service. At first he served in a moving infantry battalion and a field battalion in the Artillery Corps. He completed a course for half-track drivers and was eventually transferred to a bus storage unit at the end of May 1977. On June 19, 1977, he was killed while serving in the army, “Asaf was recognized by us and by his friends as a disciplined, calm and calculating soldier, and always, as a soldier, he was brought to rest in the cemetery in Rishon Letzion. Was willing to go out on every mission assigned to him by his commander, and never refused to go to reserve duty or to obey an order or order given to him. “His friends and his widow erected a memorial wall in the drivers’ Gad Rishon Lezion.