Arman (Rumah), Benjamin (“Benny”)

Son of Alexander and Sophie. He was born on 27 October 1942 in the city of Bizia, in southern France, not far from Marseilles. His parents lived in Antwerp, and like many of the city’s Jews, his father also worked with diamonds. But during the Second World War they moved from their residence to southern France to Vichy’s territory. After Benjamin was born, his parents were not deported to a concentration camp because of this, because during that period Hitler used Jews who were the fathers of small children; Also thanks to his mother’s pregnancy before the birth of his second brother, they were allowed to move to Switzerland. From there they returned to Belgium at the end of the war, and after Benny managed to study for one year in Antwerp, the family left the Diaspora, arrived in Israel and settled in Holon. It was in 1949. In Holon he graduated from the Shenkar Elementary School and moved to the agricultural school in Pardes Hannah. Benjamin did not dream of being a pilot when he was drafted into the IDF in October 1960. However, in the regular psychiatric examinations his characteristics were discovered and then he was influenced to enter the Air Force and to take a course in aviation, and he agreed to do so and served for another seven and a half years. He was a pilot at the flight school and performed various fighter planes, and when the Mirages arrived, he became a pilot on the new French plane, and Benny liked to play sports, play soccer and swim in the sea, and aspired to perform any sport. He was also interested in chess and as far as he could handle aviation problems in Crea Despite the fact that his share of flights in the skies of the enemy was low (such as the reduction of the Six MIGs in the skies of Syria before the Six-Day War), he was a student in the Scout tribes and recently a pilot in the Israel Air Force He was among the first pilots to visit Damascus since the War of Independence, and he was always the first to be willing to pay the price for the people and the homeland. In the air force he was promoted to the rank of captain, and as a pilot in the Six-Day War, on the 9th of Iyar 5727 (8.6.1967), he was the fourth day of the battles and fell about twenty kilometers west of Kantara. He left a wife and little daughter. A monument in his memory was erected in the Missing Persons section of the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. His family established in his memory a library whose library is the wars of the Jews from their inception until today in the agricultural high school in Pardes Hannah. His wife took out an album of illustrations and photographs of his experiences from friends, and the book was called “Shirley Shetzkher” (Shirley – the daughter’s name). This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.