Mar 15, 2009 - Senior Warrant Officer Yehezkel Ramzarkar, 50, of Maale Ephraim, was killed in a shooting attack near Massua in the northern Jordan Valley.
Police officers Yehezkel Ramzarkar and David Rabinowitz were patrolling Route 90 in the Jordan Valley in a police car shortly after 8 p.m. when they were shot at point-blank range by one or more terrorists. The two policemen apparently stopped to help the terrorists who pretended to have a flat tire. The "Imad Mughniyeh Group" claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yehezkel was born in India, near Mumbai, as the eldest son, and his family immigrated to Israel in 1967 and settled in Yavne. He moved to Maale Ephraim after his marriage.
Dani Biton, head of the Maale Ephraim local council, described Yehezkel, a policeman for 30 years, as a modest man who devoted himself to raising his three children, and to his work as a police officer. An officer in the West Bank traffic department described Ramzargar as a professional and experienced policeman, who was always courteous and polite, a good friend and colleague.
Yehezkel's brother Menashe said that he was mother and father to his children, to whom he gave everything. "Yehezkel had two loves, his family and his country. He was a single parent for 10 years. Despite the difficult police work in shifts, he dedicated every free moment to his children."
Senior Warrant Officer Yehezkel Ramzarkar was buried in Yavne. He is survived by his three children: Alon, 23, Elior, 19, and Elinor, 16, as well as his mother and eight siblings.