Yahav (Levi), Abraham (“Avi”)

Son of Avraham and Yona. He was born in 1949. He immigrated to Israel in 1950. When he arrived in Israel, he lived for the first time in Ein Shemer, and then moved to Holon, but his financial situation was very difficult: Avraham began studying at the Yeshurun ​​elementary school, After completing his studies at the elementary school, he successfully completed his studies at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Hadera, where he studied for two years and after two years of excellence in his class went to work In the carpentry during the day and in the evening, he studied bookkeeping, and was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1966 and assigned to Haim Armor. He was the last of his brothers to go out to serve in the army. He went on several occasions to raids and reprisals and took part in the Six-Day War. After the end of the war, his permanent camp was established in the Golan Heights, where he served until his last day. His comrades-in-arms told him that he had excelled in his modesty, was responsible for his actions, and was always willing to help his friends to carry out the mission. He never complained and the harsh field life he received easily and willingly. When he came home on vacation, he would not tell his parents about what happened to him in the army because he did not want to leave them in a state of anxiety when he returned to his unit. He would reassure them and try to conceal from them what he had done in the enemy’s territory. Finally, Avraham completed his regular service successfully, an event that his parents noted at the party they held in his honor. But he spent six months working for the Defense Ministry as an accountant, and he was called up for reserve duty. When he accepted the order he recoiled a little, as if he could not believe that he should return to the level and fight the enemy. In the last days before leaving for reserve duty, his behavior and feelings were very strange. He seemed to lose his self-confidence. He sank into depression and something seemed to disturb him. His parents tried to talk to his Lev to reveal his feelings, but to no avail. Which his Lev had prophesied, had risen. On the 26th of Sivan 5706 (26.6.1970), he fell in a bombardment in the Golan Heights. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. The commander of the unit wrote to his family in a letter of condolence as follows: “When the Syrians began to bombard our settlements, Avraham went out with his company to fight the enemy, and he calmly replaced the civilian clothes, received the most elaborate weapon the IDF had and embarked on the largest raid since the Six Day War The Syrian army and its strongholds on the Golan Heights. The enemy was defeated, its strongholds destroyed, most Syrians fled and some were taken prisoner – and Abraham was a partner in the great victory. He gave everything, his life for his friends, for the sake of the IDF and the people of Israel – and for the sake of peace. “- – Avraham joined a long line of courageous heroes of Israel who fought for the State of Israel. His family published a pamphlet bearing his name.