Ben-Shefer, Avner

Son of Malka and Yosef, born on 20.11.1930 in Tel Aviv, graduated from the elementary school in Herzliya in 1945 and began working at the Goldschmidt and Schwabe electrical and brass factory in Tel Aviv and continued his studies He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and a counselor in this branch of the movement in Herzliya, with great physical fitness. Belonged to a settlement group that had trained in Ginosar. Avner was a member of the “Sharon” Battalion in Gadna from the age of 14 to 16. He was a member of the “Alumim” camp for children born in 1931 and was trained in the training of Gvat. He had a musical feeling and was amazing in his flute, joining the Palmach, the Negev Brigade. Where he served as a sergeant and a squad commander in a company of half-tracks, Avner was honest and strong-hearted, slim and muscular, and had a sense of humor and humor, and was capable of influencing his friends and subordinates with imagination and ability to describe. , Telling his battalion commander: “I will not accept the end of this war with guidance alone.” One of his daredevil deeds was the man from Halesa (Kiryat Shmona of the day) to Manara in a straight line to the top of the mountain and also participated in several flights over battle zones. After the operation in Operation Horev (“Ein”) was completed, his battalion was sent with him to capture Rafah. During the second occupation of Rafah, on the 4th of Tevet 5709 (4.1.1949), the armored column was attacked by an enemy aircraft, killing four soldiers, among them Avner, and was buried in Bet Eshel on 6 August. 1949) was transferred to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery. “Hanoar Haoved” in Herzliya published in his memory a pamphlet called “Avner”.