Zehavi, Shaul (“Shaulik”)

Son of Zvi and Sarah. He was born on March 17, 1939 in Tel Aviv. He completed his elementary studies at Nes Ziona, but later moved to the Ginegar group in the valley; Where he was educated and studied high school for the first three years, and studied for four years at Beit Berl in Tsofit (near Kfar Sava). He was an excellent athlete and excelled in all sports. He was interested in history and geography. With a soul sensitive to beauty and purity. It is always right to help and rescue others from their distress. A “golden boy” called him everything, and indeed he had that nickname. He was a clerk at Tnuva in Tel Aviv. He was drafted into the IDF in 1957 and served for two and a half years as a soldier in the Golani infantry brigade, and was surprised by all the difficulties he encountered in the unit: night of ambushes, security and day-to-day patrols facing the Syrian Golan Heights. Shaul’s patrol unit was filled with fire, but his composure and resourcefulness saved him from any difficult situation, he underwent many courses in his army service, and all of them stood out for his high abilities and knowledge. Where he was recognized for recognition. On the second day of her battles, he was 26 Iyar 5727 (6.6.1967), fell in a battle that took place on the enemy post at Umm Katef in Sinai. He put down a wife. He was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari, and after a while was put to rest at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. In a letter of condolences to his mother, his commanding officer spoke of her son’s admirable image of his son in his book “A few details about him.” During the difficult days of the Jewish people at the end of May, The Arab armies, when we were moody and worried, Shaul moved from company to company and lectured on knowledge of the land. He told the soldiers about the area where we lived, on the mountains and wadis and the roads, about the battles of 1948 and Kadesh, which connected the soldiers of the battalion to that southern region in the south to know and love him. And to the will of the fighting that was once fought in the battalion when we fought against Umm Qatf and then in El Arish. ” He said that when he came to the battalion he chose him to serve as his personal pirate; He accompanied him in training and in battle and loved to move forward, in the head, and lead them all. The patrols were in his blood, and when the Rangers were sent for reinforcements they always chose the underworld. “The commander continued:” There was always confidence in his actions. Walking next to him was pleasant and full of stories of wandering on the paths of the land and its antiquities, and the things about the Land of Israel and the people of Israel, which were freely and warmly taken from him, always penetrated his Lev. “His memory was included in the booklet” The Brigade in the Six Day War. “