Adam, son of Sarah and Yerachmiel, a Holocaust survivor, was born on May 10, 1950 in Katowice, Poland. In 1957 he immigrated to Israel and studied at Netivot Elementary School in Be’er Sheva and in the “Kiryat Youth” vocational high school in Jerusalem. Adam was a talented student and began his studies at the elementary school in Be’er Sheva very soon after the family immigrated to Israel. After graduating, he moved to Jerusalem, where he studied mechanics in a professional yeshiva. There, too, he was a diligent student, loved by his teachers and friends, fearful and observant. He was always willing to help others and provide relief to the needy and saw this as a great mitzvah. He was modest, silent, and timid. Adam was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1969, and was assigned to the Nahal Brigade as part of an industrial Nahal unit, served successfully in the Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Course and completed a training course in the tank corps in the Armored Corps. In the south of the Golan Heights, and assumed the responsible role of the Civil Administration, which is responsible for the security of the agriculture and its environment. This role, like other positions, filled man with dedication, loyalty and diligence. He was well versed in military and security matters and took his army work very seriously. After graduating from the IDF, he married his girlfriend Nava and the young couple was one of the pioneers of the “Bnei Yehuda” urban settlement in the Golan Heights and later moved to Jerusalem where he served as a professional counselor at the Ministry of Labor. He was born among the people who fought for the establishment of settlements, and he always wanted to establish a warm and traditional Jewish home, his first son was born a month and a half before he fell, and when he broke into the Yom Kippur War, A call to his home. His armored personnel carrier fought in the central sector of the Suez Canal on October 21, 1973. On October 21, 1973, his unit participated in the Battle of the Hamutal Compound, five times after which the armored personnel carriers were sent to occupy the compound held by the Egyptians . A man’s armored personnel carrier was hit several times by the fierce fire of the Egyptians, and every person was injured or killed, all of the fighters in it were killed, and a man was rescued and killed, and he was brought to rest at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. And son, parents, etc. After being killed, he was promoted to the rank of corporal and was given a commendation by the Chief of the General Staff: “On October 21, 1973, during the attack on Hamutal, He was in it and began to burn. Several soldiers were injured, and the armored personnel carrier became a target for the concentration of enemy fire, and the late Corporal Adam Zin tried to extinguish the fire in the armored personnel carrier, despite the enemy fire. When he did not succeed, he began evacuating the wounded and rescuing the burning armored personnel carrier, and during this operation he was injured and fell in. Cpl. Adam Zin revealed courage, resourcefulness and brotherhood. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote that Adam had fought the example of the difficult battle, fully aware of the tasks he faced. His parents and family commemorated the establishment of a library in his honor.
