Ben-Ner, Avi (Avraham-Meir)
Son of Deborah and Joseph, was born on July 2, 1966 in Jerusalem. My father grew up in Arad, where he studied until the end of 10th grade. He studied at the “Ye’elim” elementary school, and later went on to study at the Arad High School. During the last two years of high school he studied at the “Comprehensive” High School in Be’er Sheva. My father was a member of the Scouts movement and was also active in the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. In his spare time, he read books a lot. He was always close to the book and the book was attached to it. Even when he was a young boy, my father had a good time analyzing literary works in an adult’s surgical capacity. He had a lot of information in a variety of fields. He knew Roman, Greek and Scandinavian mythologies, and was also familiar with quantum theory. But more than any other field, he knew a great deal about art. He worked in painting, sculpture and photography, and wrote poetry and prose. At the age of 17, my father exhibited his paintings in an exhibition in Arad. Unfortunately, this was his first and last exhibition. My father was a responsible and sober boy. He used to express his worldview, and especially his attitude toward social and political events in Israel, from time to time in writing, and even sent his columnist to Meir Uziel, a columnist for Ma’ariv. Other works of my father were published in the newspaper “Hatzofim” and in the newspaper “Maariv for Youth”. When he reached the army, Avi volunteered for the Nahal Brigade together with his comrades in the group. He was sent to a basic training base, but did not even finish basic training. On the 28th of Adar 5745 (13.3.1985), my father fell during his service and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Arad, where he left behind his parents, brother and sister. : “When my father wrote me a first letter, I could not guess his age in any way, because the letter contained a few paintings that the talent burst out of them and hinted at a professional. It was only after a while that Meir Uziel discovered that “this talented man is a teenager in the 10th grade.” In a letter to Meir Uziel about my father’s death, Yehudit writes from Moshav Karnit in the Galilee: “… to people who did not know him very hard Understand how great the loss is. Only someone close to him (to my father) can know that the people of Israel have lost a precious asset, and we do not know where he could have come with his tremendous and rare spiritual ability “
