Badash, Aryeh

Aryeh, the eldest son of Gisela and Nachman, was born on December 5, 1949 in Zichron Yaakov, where he spent his early childhood years. After a while, the family moved to Kiryat Anavim. Aryeh was a quiet and introverted child, very attached to the home and family, loved to gather in his corner and read books. He was a lonely type who found a common language only with individuals who spoke to his heart. He was an shy boy who sought truth and justice, the good, the beautiful and the perfect. At the age of 11, he wrote his first poem and since then has been a pen for countless times as a tool to express his feelings, yearnings, dilemmas and joys. Aryeh was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of November 1967. After completing an artillery training course, he served as a liaison officer in a tank, and his military service went through without any special events. “At first he expressed his yearning for beauty, faith, nature, art and culture, and his dislike of war, but he knew that his people had no other way but to maintain a strong army. disciplined. “When he completed his regular service, Aryeh fulfilled his dream since leaving for Europe, and wrote:” Dear Mother … You have to get used to the fact that I am not with you, even if it is very difficult for both of us. I have to do things that seem important to me. As a person, I must aspire to know more and more, to learn to live, so that I can choose what I want to do … “When he returned to Israel he had already chosen his way to the future, to work as a security man at Lod Airport, and even when Aryeh grew up in his own right, he did not sever his warm ties with his family and his mother in particular, and shortly before his death invited his mother to Tel Aviv “just so we could spend time together.” A brother in his home in Kiryat Anavim, his brother Mickey, was already on the line of fire in the area of ​​the Suez Canal, and Aryeh prepared to join his unit in the Golan Heights. In the battle of containment against the Syrians in the Golan Heights, on 13 Tishrei (9.10.1973), Aryeh was killed and he was buried in his home in Kiryat Anavim and left behind a father, mother, brother and sister, Was an outstanding and beloved team member for all his friends. “In his memory, his parents published a group called” Maduah” with Aryeh’s poems.