Bendet, Nehemiah (Chemi)

Son of Esther and Shmuel, was born on May 23, 1962 in Tel Aviv, and grew up in it. As a child, he had curly blond hair and big deep eyes that were filled with admiration and excitement from the world. He studied at the Etzion elementary school in Tel Aviv and in the State Religious High School in Givat Shmuel. He completed his high school studies at the Zeitlin School in Tel Aviv. Chemi was a good student, and he was very successful in everything he did. He liked sports – mostly basketball, and played a lot in the school. He was also a member of the “Bnei Akiva” youth movement, and eventually led it. Together with his friends, Hemi participated in many trips around the country. Chemi was friendly and friendly to his friends. He enjoyed every activity that contributed something to friends, and skillfully organized their trips and activities. As a young man he had a developed sense of justice, and always reacted to what he thought was an injustice. Helping others was a central value in Chemi’s life, and he was honest and kind in all his actions. Chemi was a loving son and devoted to his family. He believed that the army could overcome many difficulties, but the most difficult of all would be homesickness. He was the third child in the family and lived in full harmony with his two brothers. Mutual help between them was a daily occurrence, and during the vacations all the boys helped the father’s workshop and saw this as self-evident. On Shabbat the house was full of joy: read the Torah, sang and spent together. Chemi loved order and cleanliness and was thorough in everything he did, and even in his work with his father he was careful to learn the job and do it properly. With the money he earned, he bought a motorcycle and drove on trips in and out of the city. When he got to serve in the IDF, he wanted to volunteer for a combat unit, but when he was wearing glasses he wanted to volunteer for the paratroopers, but he found it difficult to accept being a tanker. “Chemi was killed in the course of his duty as a soldier,” he said, adding that he was “very capable and prominent in his qualities as a human being: his spirit of friendship, his help to others, honesty and integrity. (May 31, 1991) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, where he was succeeded by his parents and two brothers.