Tzipi Shachar | Lost her brother on DAKAR

I will never forget that terrible Saturday, when we heard these horrific words on the radio together with everyone else: communications with the submarine DAKAR was lost…the world turned upside down…our blood stopped…my younger brother Chaim Bar-Zeev (Reichberger) was on it…we were supposed to welcome him in two days…happiness turned into deep sorrow. Not knowing what happened is the worse…every navy soldier that I saw in the street – I had to go up to him, look him in the eye, and check that he’s not my brother…

A mother of three, along with many other family members of DAKAR’s lost crew, Tzipi participated for 31 years in all facets of the campaign to continue the search and find out what happened to their loved ones.