Ze'ev Sheps

Ze'ev Sheps was born in 1946 in Łódź

Ze'ev Sheps was born in Łódź on January 16, 1946, to Helena and Yitzhak, who were Holocaust survivors. In 1956 he moved to Israel with his family. He grew up and finished primary and high school at Kibbutz Shefayim.

He was drafted into the IDF in November 1964 and joined the Armored Corps. He served as a tank gunner, then a tank driver, and later commanded a Patton tank. In the Six-Day War he fought in the battle of Rafah, and in the War of Attrition he led a company as a career officer.

In the Yom Kippur War he fought on the Egyptian front with Battalion 410 of Brigade 600. On October 15, 1973, he got all the tanks of his company out of a minefield after an attack on the Missouri position in Sinai. He was wounded the next day but kept leading his company to the Suez Canal.

His tank was hit on October 19 and was recovered while burning. He was killed in the battle for the Missouri position on October 21, 1973. He was awarded the Medal of Courage and buried at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.