Bacrach, Ohad

Ben Bilha and Yosef Aryeh. He was born on 18.1.1977 in Jerusalem. Grandson of Yosef Aryeh Bacharach who fell in the War of Independence in the battle for Jerusalem. When he was two and a half years old, he moved with his family to Beit El, where he attended the religious elementary school Beit El and graduated from the Nativ Meir High School in Jerusalem, in the chemistry track. After graduating from high school, he began studying at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva and after six months joined the Kerem B’Yavneh hesder yeshiva. One was a very curious and talented child, and after being diagnosed by a psychologist as a gifted child, he was admitted to school at an early age. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and later led young members of the movement’s branch in Beit El. He was a member of the Jerusalem team at Sif, but since he was careful not to compete on Saturday, his progress was halted at some point. When he moved to study at the “Kerem B’Yavneh” Yeshiva, he also moved to the Sif club in Yavneh. He took part in a Gadna-Yam diving course in order to enlist in the naval commando unit, and he was very fond of handicrafts and was mainly involved in drawing figures, drawing greeting cards and caricatures, and making dolls of various figures made of fimo. He spent all his vacations on trips, and from one trip to the other he came to rest at home, one interested in the Bible and Jewish thought. When he joined the hesder yeshiva, his slogan was: “The fact that I want to be a combat soldier does not exempt me from being a talmid hakham.” One was drafted into the IDF in late June 1995. Two weeks after his induction, on July 18, 1995, he went on a trip to Wadi Kelt with his friend Uri Shachor, where both were murdered by terrorists. He was eighteen years old when he died. One was brought to rest in the military section of Beit El cemetery. Survived by his parents, three sisters – Michal, Talia, Adi and two brothers – Uriah and her brother. In a letter of consolation to the bereaved family, Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak wrote: “One of the hesder yeshiva students was described by his friends as an honest and decent man with a high personal level who loved to travel around the Land of Israel and was popular among those around him. “According to his friends and teachers, we learned that one was a beloved and accepted young man, a true Torah scholar, a Torah scholar and, above all, a lover of Torah and a lover of the Land of Israel.” On the first anniversary of his murder a Torah scroll was placed in the Beit El synagogue. His family, friends and loved ones from all over the country, hundreds of people participated in this ceremony, headed by the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Bakshi And Ron Rebbe. In preparation for his nineteenth birthday, his friends published a memorial book in his memory.