Benno, Eliezer

Eliezer, lucky and Kadouri, was born on June 13, 1941, in Mosul, Iraq. After immigrating to Israel, he studied at the Yavneh Elementary School in Kiryat Ata and at the Yavneh High School in Haifa. Eliezer was a good student, a book lover and an avid reader, very sociable and active in the Gadna youth movement, and when he was a young man, he completed a course for battalion commanders in Glilot and when he was a student he taught in the Gadna schools in Jerusalem. He enjoyed sports, especially long-distance running, and won third place in a long-distance running race held in the Golani Brigade in 1962. Eliezer was drafted into the IDF in August 1960 and assigned to the Golani Brigade. – During the course of his service, he participated in the Battle of Nowek, where he saved the life of a wounded soldier, and after his discharge from the IDF, Eliezer studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Hebrew and Arabic and Arabic literature. He had a BA degree. In the humanities and an administrative course at the Ministry of the Interior. At first he worked at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and was deputy director of the Minorities Department. In the Six Day War he participated in the War of Attrition in the Beit Shean Valley as commander of a mortar post, and his commanders admired him as a responsible and enterprising soldier, a fighter and a model commander.In 1969 he moved to the Interior Ministry, And in 1971 he was appointed district officer in Samaria, and in his capacity as Eliezer was responsible for the budgets of the municipalities and local authorities in the Samaria district, instructed the local authorities in their work and oversaw the implementation of the budgetary provisions. , And contributed greatly to the creation of a system He continued his studies in Arabic language and literature, and was an exemplary family man who kept a tradition and was interested in the various communities of the community, and his friends saw him as a symbol of the integration of Sephardim into social life and work in Israel. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Eliezer, a mortar in the Jerusalem Brigade, was among the fighters who held the Oracle stronghold in the sector On the Suez Canal. He was wounded and killed in the explosion on the day after Yom Kippur, on the 7th of Tishrei 5740 (October 7, 1973), in the difficult battle against the Egyptians. He was first declared missing, but in May 1975 his body was returned by the Egyptians, along with 39 fallen IDF soldiers, who were brought to the military cemetery in Haifa, leaving behind a wife and a son. His commander wrote that “during his service in the battalion, we found in Eliezer qualities of a man and a model warrior.”