Yefet (Hassan), Zadok

Zadok, son of Sa’ida and Yichya, was born in 1939 in Aram in Yemen and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1949. He studied at the Agudath Israel school in Moshav Zevdiel in the Lachish region, and continued his studies at a seminar for youth counselors in Jerusalem. Zadok immersed himself in public work. At the age of sixteen, he began to coordinate groups of youth in Akron, Zabdiel, and Moshav Zanoah in the Jerusalem corridor and operated them constructively. He also devoted his time to teaching the Hebrew language among the settlers of the New Aliya. Zadok was drafted into the IDF in the middle of 1956 and was assigned to the Military Police Corps, where he served as a military policeman and a unitary officer. In 1958 he married his girlfriend, Mazal, and since then he has been a loyal son of his parents, a devoted husband to his wife and a loving father to his children. In 1965, he was elected to head the council, and during his tenure he did much to promote the level of education in Beit Dagan, to establish suitable structures He worked in the field of writing a journal, writing notes on his public activities and on social life Tzadok was humble and modest, did not like to stand out, was not arrogant, he was cool and his behavior was balanced, energetic and vital. He participated in the war in 1967 and was awarded the “Six Day War”. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Tzadok got to his unit and was sent to the front in the Golan Heights. On the 17th of Tishrei 5734 (October 13, 1973) he fell while fulfilling his duties and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery on Mount Herzl. He left behind a wife, two sons and two daughters, two brothers and two sisters. After he fell, he was promoted to sergeant.