Bar Ohr, Tzafrir

Tzafrir, son of Sharona and Aryeh Bar Ohr, was born on May 9, 1982 at the Rothschild Hospital in Haifa. Tzafrir grew up and was educated in Acre. He was a good student, diligent and talented, who did well without much effort. When he reached the age of mitzvot, Tzafrir asked to meet with Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who visited Acre and received an official invitation and met him.
Tzafrir joined the IDF on July 17, 2000. He served in the Golani Brigade, in the Raven Unit. In 2002, he went to an officer’s course and at the end he returned to Golani, to the 12th Battalion, as commander of the recruits’ division. Tzafrir led his company in many operations, including during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Tzafrir met and married Sivan. Tzafrir was a warm and loving man, simple and humble, but there was great power in his silence and modesty, and every person he met told him that Tzafrir had left a mark on them, impressed with his giving.
In June 2014, after Hamas terrorists abducted and murdered three young men in Samaria, rocket fire from the Gaza Strip to Israel increased, and as a result, Israel launched Operation Tzuk Eitan against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Major Tzafrir fell in battle during Operation Tzuk Eitan on July 20, 2014. He was killed by a missile in the house in which he was staying in the Saja’iya neighborhood of Gaza City. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon and was survived by his pregnant wife and a daughter, parents and sister. In October 2014, two and a half months after the fall of Tzafrir, his son Harel was born, named after the Palmach Brigade and initials – “Raise your father’s head at your side.”