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Zafrani, Asher (Prosper)

Zafrani, Asher (Prosper)


Who was born on April 10, 1952, on a Passover eve night in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. On November 11, 1968, the IDF called on him to join his ranks and he was drafted in. Yehiel relates: “The day he was drafted was a sad day for me. I was so angry at him for interrupting his studies and I did not speak to him in those days, I felt oppressed. I did not know peace at all hours of work. Brotherly love was then remembered in my memory, and indeed … When I returned home I found my mother, who accompanied him to the conscription office in Tiberias, sitting gloomy and sad. We were just the two of us at home. I felt her sadness. And she … it is doubtful whether she knew my excitement and sadness, we exchanged sentences about Asher, his innocence, his honesty and his kindness, until the neighbors came and stopped him. “He wanted to join the paratroopers, and again … He was a diligent soldier, a tall, bearded, broad man, not the man before his enlistment, and now he was fine-tuning his plans, setting a goal to finish his matriculation exams and then continuing to the university. He spent three years of service near the Suez Canal and Sinai. He was the commander of tanks and the fate was that he would instruct and command the Russian-born Yasha Kazakov, who had spent six days of starvation in front of the United Nations. “My most Yaffa year (according to my personal conclusion) was done by my brother at the end of his service, when he was accepted to a seminar for youth counselors at Beit Berl in Kfar Saba,” he continues, “and he whistled at the world, according to his” follies “and” Although his work was not easy, but difficult, he successfully passed the matriculation exams, 5 exams in the teaching and other subjects of training and sports, and 12 months of intensive study. His most Yaffa sleep. ” After completing his studies at Beit Berl, he was offered to concentrate the technical club in Kiryat Shmona, which is the main home of the working and learning youth at the site. At the Technical Club, which within a few months gained great fame. First he managed to shake the club and bring him impressive achievements. His efforts also yielded fruit: he was chosen to be included in the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed delegation, which was supposed to represent Israel in Germany on November 22, 1973, but it was the thirtieth day of the fallThe character of which is in the battle for Ismailia. And there is no way of knowing what the boys, the children and adults in the country, whom we had so liked. The older man says about him: “My armor, tall, firm and loved.” The young man says: “Girls look out at their feet, and you step forward, straight-step, erect.” And what would the child say? “Everyone loved you, they always smiled at you, how your girlfriend’s lessons went, how we laughed, how we smiled at you!” He started smoking at the age of 15, but he said he did not buy a pack of cigarettes but was honored in private. He liked to grow hair, despite his family’s objections. He says he is meant to be a criminal. The credo: “Asher Zafrani is a religious person of his own accord and is not influenced, prays almost every day, eats head cover, but walks in the streets, revealing his head” – he wrote in “The Book and the Victory Album” in original handwriting. Who was raised on the lap of his father Moshe – a religious man and a rabbi of prayers. He had to approve love for every man, Jew, Arab or Christian. But his love for the Jewish people – its quarry – was great. He believed in deep and deep faith in God and His Torah, even though He had doubts and doubts. On October 6, 1973, at 2:00 PM, the Yom Kippur War broke out: He was born on the Seder night, after our ancestors left, from slavery to freedom, and now he is atoning for the sins, / He has set out on the way / from which he will not return. / For now / he has atoned for all the sins. / And he is free from all trespassing / And his pure soul / “It was difficult to tell me about the fall of Asher,” He remembered from his first days in ninth grade, a slightly mischievous student with a quick perception, a good guy, who grew up with us and we saw him as a promising student. Every time he returned from his vacation in the army he would visit the school, go to pray in the synagogue when he was around, and he would not break ties with us. We sipped our coffee cups, and then we reminisced about the past. Defend his country and with him he went into battle and never returned. “

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