Ashkenazi, Yaron

Yaron, son of Ariela and Avraham, was born in Petah Tikva on February 23, 1953. He attended elementary school in his neighborhood of Neve Oz and later attended the Ahad Ha’am High School He graduated from the Ein-Hasharon High School on Kibbutz Einat and successfully passed his matriculation exams, and grew up and was educated to the love of the Land of Israel and the people of Israel. He was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, served as a counselor in the movement’s branch in Petach Tikvah, and participated in social activities, trips and work camps. He joined the “Shomria” group in Petach Tikvah and joined the “Tidhar” group, whose members were planning to join Kibbutz Dvir, who spent many of his spare time and vacations on the trips, and few places he did not visit. To study criminality at the University of Haifa, to read books dealing with the treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents, to visit prisons and to examine closely the factors that bring youths into the criminal world. His thesis, for the purpose of obtaining a matriculation certificate, dealt with the issue of “treatment of youth Sota.” In this work he expressed some of his ideas on the methods and methods to be followed in order to rehabilitate the young offender. Yaron was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1971, and together with his friends from the “Tidhar” nucleus he joined the Nahal Brigade. He did agricultural training at Kibbutz Dvir and went on a training course for Nahal soldiers, and took part in a course for heavy machine gunners before finishing his army service, was transferred to the Armored Corps, trained and trained as a tank crew. Before he fell in battle, while on vacation, he toured the Western Galilee and visited the banks of Rosh Hanikra. During the Yom Kippur War, his unit participated in the battle against the Syrians in the Golan Heights. On October 6, 1973, when his platoon came out to rescue the soldiers of outpost 111 in the southern Golan Heights, his tank was hit and killed, until then he acted coldly, quickly and efficiently. He left behind his parents, a brother and two sisters, and was promoted to the rank of corporal in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Your son, Corporal Yaron, served in my unit as a tank crew. With his friends, in the face of the Syrian enemy.” His parents donated books in his memory to the library of the University of Haifa, which deals with the subject of his work – the science of criminology.