Ben-Ma’ash, Eliyahu (Yoash)

Eliyahu, son of Aziza and Jacob Son of-Ma’ash, was born on September 29, 1964 in Poriah (Neveh Oved), the seventh child in the family. On the 20th of Av 5747 (August 15, 1987), he fell in the course of his reserve duty in a traffic accident at the Beit Kama junction, and Eliyahu was hit and seriously wounded in the head. He was brought to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Ata cemetery, leaving behind a pregnant wife, parents, eight brothers and three sisters, and his daughter, Elior, was born in late March 1988.