Ben Baruch, Erez Ernst

Ben Berta and Rafael. In the first grade, Erez studied at the Peretz School in Kiryat Sharett, Ra’anana, and moved to the State School B in Ra’anana, where he was in fifth grade. Erez moved to the Tukker boarding school in Pardes Hannah, where he studied for two years and then moved to the Kedma Youth Village. His commanders note that Erez was “an example of good citizenship.” He was “a model soldier, serious and responsible, full of energy and joy of life, loved to help and help his friends in the unit.” About a year after his enlistment, Erez married his Sima. After his release, he began working with the elderly and the handicapped at the Mishan nursing home in Ra’anana. A week before his twenty-fourth birthday his two twin daughters, Little and Liegel, were born. Erez liked to help people, build and repair things and raise animals. At the end of April 1994, Erez was called up for reserve duty. On Friday, 20 June 1994, at the Erez checkpoint in Gaza, Erez was killed by terrorists, along with Sergeant Moshe Bukara, who was brought to eternal rest in the military section of the Even Yehuda cemetery. After his death, Erez was promoted to the rank of sergeant, leaving behind a wife and two twin daughters of two months, parents, three brothers – Meir, Shahar and Hanan, and a sister – Pazit. (Erez), but because he is part of the same group of soldiers called to the flag each year and carried out the most difficult missions of the Israel Defense Forces, Anywhere. “