Ashkenazi, Yaakov (Kobi)

Ben Linda and David. Born on October 2, 1978 in Petach Tikvah, the eldest brother of Tomer and Kfir, a good-hearted and pleasant-hearted boy who captivated his surroundings with his charming smile, and spent most of his years in his hometown at the Huberman High School “Alumim” and “Ben-Gurion” High School, and completed his senior year at the Ankori Elementary School, and was a member of the Mintz sports club in Petah Tikva where he practiced swimming and tennis, and played football. As the “king” of backgammon, and in the army he was invincible in the “backgammon” (backgammon), in which one wrong move determines the fate of the game.Kobi was a handsome, strong, modest, energetic and dominant He had a sense of design and aesthetics, and every time he was inspired, he would change the location of the furniture in the house and remodel it.Kobi also had a sense of business: As a boy he would initiate the sale of drinks and flags for Independence Day, A new bicycle, he dismantled parts of the old bike and sold them, and when he grew up, he spoke of his desire to study business administration, and Kobi always cared for his brother like a father to his sons. His dedication to his friends was also absolute, and in times of distress he would enlist in support and support in every possible way. Kobi was able to combine many worlds and avoid getting to such extremes. After his death, his parents discovered that he had contributed regularly to the Or David Yeshiva, headed by Rabbi Daniel Zar, and that he would listen to the sermons before he went out for fun. Kobi enlisted in the IDF on 20 November 1996. After training in the Givati ​​Brigade, he also succeeded in driving the fighter and was trained as a driver of the “Hammer” vehicle. And during the course of his service he was able to participate in many operational activities, and his friends said that he was very popular, and that his name was “Five Antar” – five, after the Hammer Quintet, one of its leaders, and Antar, (25.4.1999) Kobi fell on duty in Gesher HaZiv in the north of the country, in the overturning of the Hummer vehicle in which his friend drove. The friend was seriously wounded, while Kobi was killed on the spot. He was twenty years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the Segula military cemetery in Petah Tikva, leaving behind his parents and two brothers. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. Kobi was immortalized in a seminar paper dedicated to his memory and in which lines were drawn to his image.