Yizraeli, Zvi (“Tzvika”)

Son of-Avraham-Yaakov and Yaffa. He was born on June 18, 1936 in Kfar Yehoshua. Graduated from high school. He belonged to Hanoar Haoved. As soon as he finished his studies, he was drafted into the IDF (August 1954) and was asked to serve in a paratroopers unit when his mother asked him why he chose this method of difficult and dangerous positions. That someone’s sons will go and your son will sit next to Tel Aviv or Haifa? Who will go if not us, the workers of the settlement? We should serve as an example to others. “If I had gone to Nahal, I would have gone to the Arava, because soldiers are really needed and we have to serve according to the temporary order.” He did not aspire to greatness and did not seek a military career but did his duty in all that was claimed. After completing a parachuting course, he joined a reconnaissance company and traveled the country to the length and breadth of the country. From an early age, he liked to travel and explore the country’s ways. During the period of his service, several batches of fire were carried out against the enemy (against the Fedayeen in Gaza, the enemy headquarters in Khan Yunis, the Battle of the enemy outpost in Qantila, the promise of fishing on the Kinneret, between Husan and Qalqiliya); In all these operations he fought with a high hand and with devotion and orange. One of them was also praised for his courage and exemplary leadership. He was a brave warrior, but he was also a labor man, for from a young age he worked in the agriculture, for his work was his favorite; And even when we came to his village for a vacation he would take off his uniform, put on work clothes and go out to the field. In the Sinai Campaign, he went with his comrades to the Sayeret as a main machine gunner, and on the 27th of March 1967 he fell in battle in the breach of the Mitla Strait, when his last words to the friend he was carrying were: “I am going to die. Shalom to the guys, tell them to continue. ” He was buried in the Military Cemetery in Szelech and on the 13th of Marcheshvan 5711 (7.11.1957) was transferred to the military section of the cemetery in Kfar Yehoshua. Words in his memory and excerpts from his estate were presented in the collection “To Our Children,” which was published by Kfar Yehoshua in 1959. His memory was mentioned in Uri Milstein’s book, “The Paratroop Wars.”