Zeitlin, Yehuda

Son of Zabunimor (Shneur-Zalman) and Vera. He was born on the 3rd of Adar 2 5708 (April 3, 1948) in the Soviet Union. His family brought him to Israel when he was sixteen months old. They spent one year in the Beit Lid transit camp and then moved to Kiryat Yam. Where he studied at the Zevulun elementary school and after completing his studies, he spent two years in a vocational school in Kiryat Haim. Although he was a locksmith at the time of his enlistment in November 1965, he demanded that he be assigned to a combat unit and that he invested all his energies And his power to fulfill his role in the best possible way, during the Six-Day War he was always in the first ranks and reached the Suez Canal, never boasting of his actions, but he knew that his heroic deeds had reached his parents from his friends and commanders. He went down to check it and suddenly the tank flared up and the fire caught on After four days of suffering in the hospital, he died of his wounds, on the 17th of Marcheshvan 5728 (17 November 1967.) He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, and while he lay on his deathbed he cared only for his parents and only thought of them. His first question was whether the tank had been used, and his memory was raised in the “Telmidon” school of the “Zevulun” school in Kiryat Yam.