Zechariah, Herzl

Ben Latifah and Shlomo (Salim). Herzl was born in Haifa on the 6th of Shvat 1953 (6.2.1953). He was the fifth child of a large family. They lived in Kiryat Ata, and when Herzl was a young boy, the family moved to the Hadar neighborhood, a mixed neighborhood of Arabs and Jews. There, Herzl learned the Arabic language. As a boy Herzl worked as a youth counselor with children with retardation, and from there all his love for them. Herzl enlisted in regular service in the Border Police. At the beginning of his service he was recruited to the Border Police, and during this period, when they were guarding the northern border and looking for terrorists, they brought about the capture of Udi Adiv and his company. After his discharge, Herzl worked for a while as a welder in the refineries. After a while, Herzl returned to regular service at the Border Police, and was asked for his skill as a guide in Beit Horon, where his professional qualities stood out and immediately after training one of the recruits he was asked by the SWAT to join his mentors. He stayed in YM and joined the sniper unit, and he loved the unit, which was in the process of being formed, and after a while they moved to a permanent base, and the great love of the people led them to see a home and family, even when life there was like the Wild West. After his wife was born, he was born in 1988. His daughter, Hagar, was born in 1978. In 1983, her daughter Adi, a beloved and special girl who was killed in a terrible car accident in 1987, was born. In 1988, her daughter, Maor, was born, bringing light and joy to life to the home, to Herz’s life And the whole family. The family lived until the month of April 1988 in Carmiel. Then buckthorn resolution passed Gush Segev. Herzl was a unique man. He was a devoted and loving husband and father, a man for whom a family was a supreme value. He loved gardening. Was a man with “green hands” and everything that touched him blossomed and grew. He loved trips very much – the love of the land and the landscapes were rooted in his heart and blood. Later in his career, Herzl moved to serve in the Northern Border Police, where he completed an intelligence coordinator course and served as an intelligence coordinator in the Western Galilee region, during which he gained many revelations and brought suspects to trial, from which he moved to serve in the Northern Border Guard (Operations Sergeant), and was responsible for Operation Fox Tail. In 1991 Herzl was chosen as the outstanding policeman, thanks to professional and good service. On 2 May 1995, when Sergeant Herzl was preparing for the Memorial Day ceremony, he died of cardiac arrest at the age of forty-two and was laid to rest in the Karmiel cemetery.