Bendler, Ben-Zion Hacohen (Benny)
Son of-Bronia and Moshe Hacohen was born in Tel Aviv on February 10, 1965. He studied at the “Zichron Meir” Talmud Torah school in Bnei Brak and later at the Mishkan Yaakov Yeshiva in Haifa, where he met new friends, Who was invited to study at the Seder Yeshiva and moved to the Shilo yeshiva in Samaria and to the yeshiva in Yamit, where he grew up in the Yismach Moshe neighborhood near Kiryat Ono. He participated in almost all the display settlements in Hebron, Kiryat Arba, and Yamit, and Benny loved to travel to Israel and was well acquainted with it, and when he was 17 he wanted to enlist in the IDF and insisted despite his parents’ disagreement. Benny wanted to volunteer for Golani in the belief that infantry would contribute his maximum share, but was assigned to serve in the Armored Corps. On vacations from the army, he would join the demonstrative actions of Gush Emunim. From his love for the Land of Israel, Benny Limit came through the tempestuous period of his evacuation as a member of the movement to stop the withdrawal from Sinai. His political views were extreme. He believed that the withdrawal should be delayed and that any small action, as it were, could help. In the last half year of the Yamit-controlled area of Israel, Benny was one of the founders of the Yarkon-Adar and Maoz-Yam settlements, and in the last month of the evacuation of the Yamit region, he has been forcibly evicted from the settlements several times. He attended the hesder yeshiva in Yemit, and when the yeshiva moved to Neve Dekalim, he joined its students. His dream was to become a farmer of Torah in the Land of Israel. He saw this as a great privilege. My son had an argument with me, because through him he would turn things over to himself and answer questions that preoccupied him. “He was an incorrigible idealist,” a friend wrote in a booklet published in his memory. During his last life, Benny served in the eastern sector as a tank driver. He was about to be released from the IDF two weeks before his service, to help his sick father earn a living – marketing books and ritual objects for the holidays – the day before his release, when he volunteered to secure a Shin Bet security service that had collected intelligence information in the village of Majd al- . A burst of gunfire was fired at the squad and its security guards from the ambush. My son fell in battle on the 27th of Elul 5744 (23.9.1984), when he was 19 years old, and was brought to rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote to the family: “Ben Zion was a soldier who stood out in his adult and exemplary behavior, with principles, a warrior and a devoted friend.” He was succeeded by his parents, four brothers and a sister who was born in 1990. A Torah scroll written in his memory and a Torah scroll were placed in a “Yamit” Yeshiva in Neve Dekalim on the Gaza coast
