Ben-Basset, Orna

The eldest daughter of Chaim and Ruth. She was born on January 1, 1953, in Moshav Beit Hanan. She attended the “Gan Raveh” regional school and the “Reali Gymnasium” in Rishon Letzion. She was a good-natured, good-looking, welcoming girl. Because of her good nature, she was loved by all her relatives and acquaintances. Everywhere there was a spirit of cheerfulness and joy of life. It was full of light and amiability. She was diligent in her studies and excelled in them and was admired by her teachers and classmates for her achievements. She devoted much of her spare time to learning English outside of school because she had a special inclination to learn foreign languages. She was very excited when offered to her by an English teacher to go to England and serve as a nanny for two children in a Jewish-London family. She aspired to progress in her studies in English and did. Arna had been preparing for Cambridge’s internships and was successful. She studied English Language and Literature and was highly acclaimed for her achievements, as she proved her independence and seriousness in her work and her ways. She invited her parents to come to London and after a joint trip to Europe returned to Israel. Arna was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-October 1971 and was assigned to the Signal Corps, where she accepted the service with joy and love and soon managed to establish relations of friendship with soldiers and soldiers from her unit. She returned to Israel on the 27th of Shevat 5772 (27.1.1972) when she was doing her job and she was 19. She was brought to eternal rest in the Beit Hanan cemetery, where Arna was commemorated in the monument to the students of the Reali Gymnasium in Rishon Lezion. The monument to the people of Beit Hanan who fell; The “Gan Raveh” regional school established a “pedagogical library” in the teachers’ room.