Ze’ev (Zevik), son of Malka and Yitzhak, was born on September 18, 1948 in Moshav Sde Ya’akov. He attended the religious school “Sde Ya’akov” in the moshav. After graduating from the “Midreshet Noam” high school in Pardes Hanna, he moved to the vocational school in the seminary in Haifa, where he studied for four and a half years in mechanical engineering. In his school, the talented boy was a diligent pupil, he loved history and was particularly interested in the War of Independence, while for the rest of his friends this period was only history, for Zeev it was a life-story, an experience and a memory of his uncle Ze’ev, who fell in the War of Independence. His youth was active in the Bnei Akiva movement as a trainee and as a guide, but most of all he loved the work of the land and the good And he and his friends set up a natural room, where he devoted most of his free time to nurturing him, feeding himself the animals in the animal corner and expanding them by collecting butterflies, turtles and frogs. During his military service he devoted most of his short and short holidays to help in the agriculture, and he intended to continue his academic studies in agriculture, where he was a loyal friend of his parents and a loved one and a great supporter of his people and his homeland. Ze’ev was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-February 1968 and volunteered for the Air Force, where he completed his course as an outstanding trainee and later served as a navigator and navigator. He was described as an excellent officer, an excellent and comfortable instructor in his work and an officer with a promising future, and in 1970 he married his girlfriend Nitza, and a year later their first son, Zevik, was born. He had a devoted husband and a loving father, and he tried to devote most of his free time to his wife and son, for three ah On Monday night, before leaving for his last mission, he spoke with his father on the phone and said, “Dad, we are doing Yaffa things.” At the same time, The third night of the war, on the 9th of Tishrei 5734 (9.10.1973), he embarked on his last mission – the explosion of bridges erected by the Egyptians on the Suez Canal – and his plane was hit by a missile and fell in the area of the Third Army, about four kilometers east of the canal opposite the city of Suez. Sit down. A year and a half later, on the first of the month of Iyar 5735, his body was returned and he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Sde Ya’akov, leaving behind a wife and son, parents, brother and sister. “It is difficult for us, as members of the same village, of the same age, to sit and reminisce about Ze’ev, to think about him in terms of what he was … We lost a heavy loss. The people of Israel have lost a devoted citizen, his family, his parents, his wife and son, who have lost what is dear to them, the pride of the family. We lost a friend and a guide. We will remember him as he was, young, consistent, faithful to himself, on his way, to his people, a great lover of the people of Israel. “
