Bar-Dor, Yaron

Ben Yehudit and Yoel. He was born on March 20, 1973 in Jerusalem. Son of parents born in Jerusalem, graduates of the Hebrew Gymnasium and members of the Scouts movement (in the tribe of Masada), originating in a rooted family. The father is an architect and the mother is a social worker who has served for many years in the career army in the mental health system. Yaron studied at the Paula Ben Gurion Elementary School, continued his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia in mathematics and chemistry and graduated with high grades, and prepared a final thesis in history on archeological-biblical topics called ‘The fortifications of the city during the monarchy and the war against them.’ Yad Ben Zvi Prize for the year 1990/91. He had a well-developed sense of personal responsibility and diligently and seriously fulfilled every task or goal he took upon himself. He was an ambitious and achievement-oriented boy, yet he had the ability to accept what was already there. He was not physically strong, but despite this he was an outstanding runner and was involved in the development of physical and combat fitness. He built a collection of models of airplanes, vehicles and tanks and was a photography enthusiast. He created several videos in cooperation with friends, including the documentary film “Yesterday of Tomorrow,” which documented the last year of high school and was screened at the graduating party of the Gymnasium in 1981. Yaron was a very sociable person with a charming personal charm, full of humor, , He was the center of social activity at the school and the Scouts movement, and his friends described him as responsible for entertainment, humor and laughter, and he was considered the king of laughter. Clothing, furniture and the design of his immediate surroundings, Yaron was open and shared his experiences with others To hear his stories. He combined intensive studies full social life. From his youth that accepted for pilot training and was subscribed to the journal of the Air Force but when he got whenever he decided to join an elite unit to another. After all weed out candidates who received Sayeret Matkal. Yaron enlisted in regular service as a combat soldier in the reconnaissance unit in August 1991. During his military service in Sayeret he completed a combat paramedics course (excellent grade) and was offered to join the training staff. The opinion of the commanders of the course states that he is “highly motivated and with a lot of energy that is always invested in positive ways of learning and helping friends.” In the course of his service, he graduated with honors from the course “Terror Snipers”. Yaron fell in the course of his duties on 28.5.1992. During a tour of Mount Shlomo in the Eilat area, under extreme climatic conditions, Yaron was summoned to help his friend Eran, who was hit by a heat stroke (and died some time later). Yaron, who felt bad, ran in the heavy heat along a hard mountain path, managed to inject two transfusions into Eran, but collapsed and died of a heat stroke. Yaron was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He left two parents, Lior and Tal, and a sister, Michal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “Yaron’s death is a death of self-sacrifice in order to save a friend. The commander added that Yaron, too, was prominent in his abilities and abilities. Articles about his downfall and about him appeared in the press of the period. His parents commemorated his memory by setting up a corner for finishing work in his name in the library of the Hebrew Gymnasium where he studied, and by setting up a landscape observatory at Mount Yehoram, near the place where he fell. The Observatory in memory of Yaron and his teammate Eran Ofer was established with the assistance of the Nature Reserves Authority and with the help of his colleagues in the unit and the staff. The members of the Masada Scouts, to which he belonged, hold an annual game in his memory to recognize Jerusalem – the ‘Tribal Treasure’.