Ben Ya’akov, Aharon (“Ahareleh”)

Son of Avraham and Sarah, one of the founders of Kfar HaRoeh, was born on the 9th of Elul 5708 (September 13, 1948) in the village. He graduated from elementary school in Kfar Haroeh, where he was very energetic, involved in society and loved to help his friends – and others at a young age – when he changed his father in the farm and helped his neighbors so much that everyone loved him. In Kfar Haroeh, he attended the Bnei Akiva high school in Netanya. There, in the framework of the life of a boarding school, he found a wide range of help for the weak, for the love of friends, and for the relationship between man and his fellow man. Already at that time his great love for Israel was revealed – and his contemporaries wrote about him: It was as though he were embracing the dirt road in his many journeys across the earth. As his high school graduation approached, he was very serious about choosing his way of life. He then decided to move to a high yeshiva and said that he would devote his entire life to studying Torah and fulfilling its commandments. He moved to the high yeshiva in Netivot, which is the Negev Yeshiva. In this yeshiva, he was very meticulous about the mitzvot, continued studying Torah until late at night and wanted to reach the full dimensions of a Torah scholar. After the Six-Day War, in which he devoted himself to building fortifications, his conscience weighed on him and aroused a strong desire to escape to the defense of the people, even though he was exempt from this duty as a yeshiva student. He then moved to the “Dibba Kerem” yeshiva, where yeshiva students undergo basic training and advanced training; It was in July 1967. During his service in the IDF, he was able to behave according to the mitzvot and the entire recess was used for Torah study, and he always had a smile on his face and treated every son of Torah with humility and humility and wanted to hear the words of Torah from everyone A great committee, humble and humble, and he did not want to talk about himself because he was not in the mood, because he was a peace-loving person, many of whom were stories of his physical help to his friends, and he was encouraged by his Lev smile. But on the 17th of Shevat, 5729 (February 5, 1969), he completed his duties and as a result of the landing of a fallen mine, it was on the Golan Heights. At the cemetery in Kfar Haroeh. The commander of his platoon wrote a letter of condolence to his parents in his name and in the name of the entire department, among other things: “I was the commander of your eldest son’s department … Parents, just as you lost your son, we lost one of the nicest guys whom everyone loved and everyone wanted to be with. Today in his image – the image of the religious soldier who always knew how to keep the commandments of the Torah in his personality and always kept reminding us, the commanders, of the place of the Torah within us. ” On the anniversary of the fall, memorial ceremonies were held for Aharon at the “Negev Yeshiva”, at “Kerem Divana”, at Kfar HaRoeh and at the high school yeshiva in Netanya. “In Israel. On the anniversary of the inauguration of the “Negev Yeshiva” a magnificent hall called “Heichal Aharon”. A yeshiva library was established in his yeshiva in Netanya. At the Kerem Devana Yeshiva there is a fund to commemorate his memory (and even in memory of David Landau); This fund publishes a monthly magazine for the soldier “Blachatach Be-Derech”, which contains a collection of ideas on halachic matters that are prepared in an easy manner – and is intended for religious soldiers in the army. In the school in Kfar HaRoeh, a Torah quiz is held every year in honor of the winners and outstanding students, and a booklet commemorating the first year of its fall was issued by the Foundation for the Commemoration of the Saints, founded by the “Diva Kerem”. His soul is on behalf of the “Friends of the Medrash of Israel” – a printout of the “Midrash Yavne”.