The first baby of Kibbutz Ramat Hasofet.
Ran Hakim in his youth (photo: courtesy of the family)
After nine years in which Kibbutz "L'Liberat" was located on the "Givat al-Hazarchim" near Rehovot, a place was finally found for it to establish itself and in 1941 the first members of Kibbutz Ramat Shosef moved to their permanent location in Ramat Menashe.
For the time being, the children and babies stayed with their verifications in the "Givat al-Chancesim", until the children's homes were built for them.
One day Judge Tzipora Hakim arrived at Ramat with a suitcase in the form of a cradle with her baby son Ran in it.
After a journey from the hospital in Afula, through Yegur, the young mother arrived with the baby who was the first child in the young settlement.
Let there be a sign of renewal and the beginning of the judge's level.
"A small, single baby sleeping in a wooden suitcase, surrounded by dozens of tents of the young kibbutz founders. In the shadow of the loss of their families in Europe, the newly born baby symbolized the new life in the Land of Israel," Omer Hakim, Ran's son, described the first days of his father's life in the obituary he wrote .
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Hakim (photo: courtesy of the family)
A week ago Ran Hakim passed away and he is almost 80 years old. He was born in December 1942 to Dano and Tzipora Hakim, one of the founders of Kibbutz Ramat Hasofet.
His father was born in Bulgaria and spent most of his years working in education, and during the War of Independence he fought in battles in the region.
His mother was born in Lithuania and she also worked for many years in the field and in education.
He was their eldest son and three more sons were born after him.
When Ran was eight years old another boy joined the family who grew up with him as a brother in everything.
It was the boy Yehezkel Dangur, born in Iraq, who immigrated without his parents who remained in Iran and immigrated later to Israel.
At the judge level they knew him as an adventurous and playful redheaded boy.
Alongside his mischievous acts, he wrote poems and stood out for his narrative ability.
He was also an outstanding athlete in athletics and was one of Israel's 400 meter relay team in Maccabiah.
In his youth he guided the children of his kibbutz as part of the "Hashomer Hatzair" movement and later in his military service he was an officer in the paratroopers brigade.
Ran receives honors at the end of the officers' course, behind him in the photo - Matan Vilnai, later a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party (photo: courtesy of the family)
In the Six Day War, Ran, who was a lieutenant in the reserves and a platoon commander, took part in the battles to occupy the Golan Heights in the last two days of the war.
He was landed with ten other soldiers deep in the Golan Heights, about 25 km from the Israeli border. The helicopter pilot was Eliezer "Cheetah" Cohen, commander of the Sikorsky helicopter squadron during the war and later a member of the Knesset. Hakim and his fighters were taken down in the field when they were confronted by a Syrian battalion and Half an hour later, hundreds of other fighters who arrived in helicopters were landed on the spot. Hakim was the one who marked and landed the helicopters that brought 450 paratroopers there on their equipment.
"Then I tell Ran to get off, and this is where the man was revealed in his greatness," said "Cheetah" at a heritage evening in which he and Hakim were interviewed several years ago, as documented on the "Namosh" website.
"Cheetah" continued to describe: "He goes up to my cell and what does he say to me? 'I followed you in the navigation, you are already 30 km inside the plateau, how do I get down here?'
So I told him - Ran, Dhilak, do you know me?
do you trust me
I'll get your guys in a bit.
And he got off the helicopter with supreme bravery.
You wouldn't want to be alone in Tel Fars as there is a Syrian battalion not far away, and when he already knows he is inside the level.
He got off, and I was a traffic manager, and the train was working and dropped off 450 people here.
The southeastern corner of the southern Golan Heights was determined here.
This is how it was determined," said "Cheetah".
In the diary he wrote he recorded that day of battle and the days preceding it, the period of tense waiting and the first four days of the war in which he and his comrades were sent to the West Bank and then to the battlefield in the north.
About the flight from the Lower Galilee to the Golan Heights he wrote: "The takeoff field resembled a large field when everyone wants to get ahead and fly. At 5:00 PM we were in the air over the Sea of Galilee. There are no words to describe the sight and even less words to describe the feeling of passing over it and qualifying in the air to the threatening Syrian plateau."
A visit by senior officials of the security establishment and the army (Moshe Dayan, David Elazar, Raphael Eitan and Mordechai Mota Gur) to the outpost he commanded in the Syrian enclave of the Golan Heights after the Yom Kippur war (photo: courtesy of the family)
Along with the descriptions of the battles, he also expressed his appreciation for the enemy who was standing in front of him.
"The fact that we passed the dead bodies of the Syrian soldiers and found many empty cartridges next to them, the fact that we knew they fought, wounded to the end, the fact that we remained silent, was to express our appreciation for the heroism of those soldiers," he wrote at the end of a description of a battle to capture a building where Syrian soldiers were barricaded .
He also recorded with his camera before the battles and during lulls and left an important archival treasure from those dramatic days.
In the Yom Kippur War he fought in Hermon and the Syrian Golan Heights.
He finished his reserve service as a deputy brigade commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He started his career as a cooper at Ramat HaSheft and coordinated the poultry industry.
Later, he held a series of positions in the kibbutz and outside of it, he was farm coordinator, coordinator of the kibbutz's wood factories, a public representative on the board of the Discount Bank, a member of the coordinating committee and a member of the management of the Histadrut workers' association, a senior official in MAPM institutions (United Workers' Party) and more. In 1982, As a member of the delegation of young people from PAM to Moscow, he met with Jews who refused to attend and even handed over to the Israeli press photos he took at those meetings.
As part of his social and political activities, he was also head of Ken Holon of "Hashomer Hatzair" and later was one of the founders of the "Shalom Now" movement.
"Leaving the memory and heritage of the place was one of his life's tasks."
Ran Hakim (photo: courtesy of the family)
Alongside his work, he studied academic studies and wrote a doctoral thesis in which he conducted a historical-economic analysis of the kibbutzim in Israel, from their establishment until 2001. He also wrote other non-fiction books and a novel about "Ruti", an ultra-Orthodox girl, who suddenly left her parents' home in Bnei Brak, went out with a question and was accepted In a family in a kibbutz in the north of the country.
The book is told from the point of view of "Dan", the father of the adoptive family, who tells about the fascinating and tormented journey of "Ruti".
In his obituary for his father, son Omar wrote that "It seems that father took seriously the responsibility placed on the shoulders of the first son. He held countless positions in the kibbutz, but the most important of them all was his unofficial position - in charge of memory and heritage. Father was one of the kibbutz's obituary writers, the man whose house they come to Many come to find out details about the history of the place, and sometimes also pick up the phone to ask something they didn't remember about their own families. And sometimes they just came to hear some of the wonderful legends and stories of the place, which of course got better and better over the years. Passing on the memory and heritage of the place was one of Dad's life missions ".
As part of the same role that Ran took upon himself to document the history of Ramat Hasofet, he also mapped all the graves in the kibbutz cemetery, uploaded it to the local website, and for each dead person he attached the story of his life that he had written down.
Even after his retirement, Hakim continued to be involved in the life of his kibbutz.
In his spare time, he volunteered to transport patients from the Palestinian Authority to hospitals in Israel, as part of the "On the Road to Recovery" association.
Even before that, for many years, he volunteered to organize camps and other activities of the paratrooper widows and orphans association.
Ran left behind a wife and four sons, brothers and six grandchildren.
"Father, you were born in this place 80 years ago, and you never moved to another place. You lived a life full of content, action and meaning. You established and supported your large family, built a glorious kibbutz, and today you are being laid to rest in a landscape and in a place that was your favorite in the whole world," his son eulogized him Omar
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