Benin, Eyal Tuvia

Daniela and Amir’s only son. Was born on August 17, 1983 in the city of Soslborg, South Africa, where he immigrated to Israel in 1985 and settled in the southern settlement of Omer, where Eyal grew up and studied at the Omerim Elementary School and continued to Omer High School, He was very active in the Scouts movement in the Bamidbar tribe, and when he reached the 10th grade following his parents’ divorce, Eyal moved to Tel Aviv with his mother in Tel Aviv and graduated from the Gymnasia High School in the city. Of the “Scouts” tribe in Omer and remained faithful to his childhood friends The “18th” group to which Eyal belonged was a group of young men and women from Omer who had accompanied each other since the first grade, Eyal was very fond of reading, watching movies, loved cars and a lot of riding a bike, and he used to go on long bike trips, and many times he swallowed Eyal’s desire to serve in a combat unit like all his friends in the “18” group encountered difficulties because he was an only child, but Eyal did not give up and demanded that his parents give their consent. Eyal for Battalion 932 of the Nahal Brigade. In November 2004 he was discharged with the rank of First Sergeant. He traveled to the world and returned, chose to live in Be’er Sheva, to be close to his friend for six years, Alex, and his old friends. He lived with a friend in a rented apartment, studied for the psychometric exam and was accepted to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eyal and Alex planned to take a short trip to China and then move to live together in Jerusalem, towards the start of Eyal’s studies at the law school. On June 18, 2006, Eyal was called up for reserve duty and went up with his unit, a infantry battalion, to the north, about a month before his twenty-third birthday, on the 12th of Tammuz 5766 (July 12, 2006) He was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind his parents.