Benor, Assaf
Ben Ziva and Emanuel. He was born in Kiryat Bialik on the 11th of Adar Alef 5736 (February 12, 1976). The youngest of the four children of the Benoor family, a brother to Ro’i and Tzvika, and a twin brother to Noa. Assaf began his studies in 1982 at the Bialik Elementary School in his city, where he continued to the junior high school and the ORT Comprehensive High School in Kiryat Bialik where he graduated in chemistry in 1994. Asaf was an avid sports enthusiast and practiced gymnastics and table tennis for many years. For many months he even devoted himself to physical training for his military service. In 1992 he went on a trip to Europe. Assaf enlisted in the IDF in early August 1994. He successfully passed the training course for the Engineering Corps, basic training, platoon and cadets, and served until the time of his injury in the engineering unit for special missions, “Sayeret Yael”. 1995, Assaf was critically injured in the terrorist attack at the Sharon-Beit Lid junction, where he was injured in the second explosion, while he was helping the victims of the first explosion. I went on to Tel Aviv and decided to go down in Netanya. I wanted him to go with me to Tel Aviv and from there to return to the base, and I argued with him. But he insisted. When he got off the train, I burst into tears, and only then did I realize that perhaps there was a premonition of what was about to happen. “Assaf was hospitalized at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem, and returned to his consciousness two days later, and his brother Roi said:” We sat with him for hours and talked about everything. Of the attack. He was not prepared to talk about it. “After eight days he lost consciousness again and was treated for nearly two years at the Horev Medical Center in Haifa, and his family spent the whole day and night at his bedside, hoping to recover. December 16, 1996), Assaf died of his wounds. He was twenty years old when he fell. He was promoted to corporal after his death Assaf Benor was laid to rest in the military section of the Tzur Shalom cemetery, leaving behind his parents, two brothers and a sister. Assaf – for his intelligence and special thinking, for his love and activity as a gifted athlete and for being loved by all his friends, family and those around him. His efforts to reach the unit and his determination to succeed indicate his personality and the quality education he received from his parents and from his immediate surroundings. His fatal injury to the serious incident at Beit Lid occurred when Assaf felt the need, after the first explosion, to help save lives. Thus, in the second and fatal explosion, he was at the center of the arena – that is how he was brought up, so he acted, so he fell. “On June 1, 2003, GOC Central Command granted Corporal Asaf Benor a personal citation, To his family, “to the craziness of the soul, to the realization of the value of evil in self-risk, courage, the discovery of resourcefulness and being a model and an example.”
