Aharon, Reuven

Son of Abdallah and a wedding. He was born in 1945 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1951. He studied at the Geulim Elementary School in the Jordan Valley and was a quick and diligent child, and devoted his leisure time to sports and swimming. The parents were unable to allow him to do so, so he was registered at the Youth Employment Bureau and sent to work as a trainee, and he did his job very diligently, occasionally getting hurt in his work, but his parents did not reveal it so as not to upset them. At the end of November 1962 and was assigned to the Golani Brigade. He was a model soldier and loved by all his friends and commanders. He used his short army vacations for temporary work, to support the parents, and even to bring home gifts for the little children. As a dedicated and disciplined soldier, his commanders recommended, with a certificate of excellence, that he be allowed to be hired for any job, while serving. After his discharge from compulsory service, Reuven wanted to study and saw no future in the plumbing work he had done before he was drafted. So he worked the day and went to school in the evening. He got a job at customs and was very much loved by his managers and friends. From time to time he was called up for reserve duty and would do his duty with great loyalty. At the beginning of August 1969 he was called up for active reserve duty. On 28.8.1969, he fell in the Jordan Valley by shelling the enemy. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. His commander sent a letter of condolence to his parents, in which he wrote: “I met your son Reuven for a number of years, while he was still a soldier in the regular army, and when I was in command of the battalion I met him again. Who was not a deterrent to every task and task assigned to him – and so on his last mission, to pursue a terrorist squad in the Jordan Valley from which he did not return “He said. After his fall, a pamphlet was published in his memory and his name was read on it