Zolberg, Naftali (“Dolly”)

The youngest son of Abraham and Shoshana. He was born on May 2, 1953, in Be’er Sheva. His parents came from an enthusiastic Zionist home – a house full of love for the homeland and a pioneering spirit of work aimed at establishing a Jewish home in the Land of the Patriarchs. This spirit influenced the character of the house they established in Israel. The parents married in Jerusalem in 1940 but after the liberation of Be’er Sheva (in 1948) the family moved to the Negev capital to organize the opening of the operating room of the Hadassah hospital there. Naftali attended the “Be’eri” elementary school in his hometown. He was a good student and a favorite of the teachers and educators, and at the parents’ meetings his parents would listen to him but praise him from the teachers. He began studying at the comprehensive high school in Beer Sheva, and after the first year the family moved to Tel Aviv and Naphtali entered the municipal high school. His brother, Yisrael, fell at the beginning of the Six-Day War and his friends from Be’er Sheva felt that when he fell there was a change in Naftali; He grew up and became strong in spirit. All his friends wished he had moved to Tel Aviv, although he would often visit them in Be’er Sheva because he was very attached to them. His ability to overcome the disaster amazed everyone. His cheerfulness and smiling, which were accompanied by a certain sadness, served his friends as a symbol of life going on and difficult crises must be overcome. At the high school in Tel Aviv, Naftali also had deep friendships with his classmates and with all those who came into contact with him as a member of the student council at the school. Was active in sports in the field of shotgun and loved to travel and tour the country. In the framework of the Gadna he excelled in target shooting, and he liked to photograph landscapes from his artistic leanings, and his paintings decorate the walls of his parents’ home, and he also excelled in the Municipal Youth Orchestra in Be’er Sheva. In the Israeli film “The Policeman Azulai.” To his classmates, Naftali was remembered as a good friend, and he excelled in reading and reading classes, and in 1970 he was active in organizing and guiding parties. , Naftali toured European countries, but despite all his impressions, he was very Simcha He returned home to his friends in Israel and every opportunity he would tell about his experiences in the tour would end: “We have a better and healthier place here.” A year later, he completed his high school studies and towards the end of the year, Naftali prepared his graduation party, to the satisfaction of his fellow students, Naftali was drafted into the IDF in the middle of August 1971. In the IDF, he discovered a vast space for all his social and cultural aspirations, and he strove to fulfill everything his brother Israel did not have time to do. To fulfill his duty to the army, to the state, to the people and to his comrades. He was Simcha in the military framework, as he wrote to his parents in one of his letters, “You can learn to do things in a minimum of time and with the maximum ability a person can invest.” At the beginning of December 1971, Naftali was on a regular holiday on the occasion of the marriage of his brother Uri and visited his good friends in Be’er Sheva because he wanted to keep in touch with all of them: On December 18, 1971, He was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, and later his body was transferred to Naftali’s grave in memory of the Neveh Avraham forest near the agricultural school Eshel Hanasi To express their admiration for their beloved friend Naftali in his terrible suffering over the fall of the citybrother. Each year his classmates met in the grove of Israel and at their traditional annual meeting in 1971. These were Naftali’s last words: “The planting of the grove, which is a large and impressive enterprise in all respects, is intended to bring together the members every year on Memorial Day for the fall of My brother Israel in the Six Day War – and I wish all of us success in the next stage of our lives – this time in IDF uniform. Let us try to meet next year in this grove and maintain contact between us. “In the fall year, his classmates planted another grove in his memory, a Torah scroll in his memory and the memory of his brother Israel was brought to the Bavli synagogue. The municipal youth orchestra, which will be awarded to talented students of low means, and in the year Naftali fell, the family gave another scholarship in his name, and a few pages were dedicated to Naftali’s memory in the journal of the students of the municipal high school. Similar to the “two brothers who fell” were published in the newspaper Be’er Sheva and Maariv.