Yana (Hilu), Avraham (Avremale)

Son of David and Miriam. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, on 28.5.1936, he studied in an elementary school abroad, and his father and his eldest brother (Eliyahu) were involved in the “smuggling” of young people from Iraq to Persia, where they were given to “Aliyat Hanoar The father and his older brother, Eliahu, were arrested for a week in the snow, during which they made their way on foot. On horseback and donkeys, arrived in Tehran, where they stayed for about a month in the “Youth Aliyah” camp, where they had to sell some of their possessions until their arrival in Eretz Israel. Josh years and was a shepherd. In the meantime risen parents (winter 1951) and after a while he left the kibbutz to support the parents in that initial period of absorption. Two years he worked in the mail of Kfar Vitkin. February 1958 was drafted into the army and participated in reprisal and in Sinai. Upon his discharge from the army, he found work in driving and worked in a transport office. His loyalty to his wife and his devotion to his children was reflected in the fullness of the house shortage, despite his condition, which was not good. He was known for his kindness, for his help to his friends; In his concern for all of Kaddish also his time and money and did not consider himself. On the other hand, he would have expressed his own problems. He always smiled and replied, “Everything is all right,” he would dismiss himself from an answer to his condition. But it was not far off today and the Six-Day War broke out, during which he served as a driver in the Harel Brigade. After his return from the war he was called up for reserve duty. His wife pleaded with him to submit a request to postpone this service because of her illness and the illness of his young son. But despite his devoted husband to his wife and a loyal father to his children, he did not respond to his wife’s request: “I want to finish the job and start working regularly.” But fate did not want to, because on the 18th of Marshvan 5728 (21.11.1967) Abraham fell in a shooting incident with the Jordanians in the area of ​​Umm Short. He left a wife and two children. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. In a group that was taken out by the Netanya Municipality in memory of the fallen, his name was mentioned.