Ziva’s youngest son, Levitch and Avihu. Born in Netanya on the morning of Saturday, 3 August 1968. A third son in the family, a younger brother to Arik and Lazar, a warm and Zionist house, was his home, his family loved and embraced, , Was one of the founders of the city of Netanya and was the son of the founders of Zichron Yaakov who immigrated to Israel in 1882. His grandmother, Fania, who immigrated to Israel in 1924 from Riga, Latvia, was a singer in the first Israeli opera under the direction of Mordechai Golinkin. From his childhood in Grodno, Poland, who built the country in 1944. His grandmother Chana, a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania, immigrated to Israel in 1929 and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Afikim and Beit Zera. He spent his first eighteen years in Netanya, where he was educated at the “Itamar” elementary school and completed his studies at the “Tchernichovsky High School.” He was an outstanding and talented student, loved to read and was active in the youth Maccabee youth movement and Zvulun Where he learned to sail and learn about the sea, and when he was six, Assaf wanted to learn piano, and learned to play for six years, was very talented and continued playing until his father died. Six months later, the family suffered a tragedy on a rainy and stormy Friday morning, 10 January 1981, when his father suddenly died in front of the entire family. In the days of the shiva on Assaf, his family heard a lot about him and one of his friends quoted a sentence that said to him: “I have to keep my health so that my children will not do what happened to me.” After completing his high school studies, He joined the Ordnance Corps and joined the Ordnance Corps and began a glorious military career at the “Tel Hashomer” base in the Forklifts Department, where he prepared and prepared a safety manual “We did not want to give him up and we persuaded him to sign a permanent order,” Asi said, and moved to serve in a rehabilitation center in Tel Aviv. And maintenance (Human Resources 7000) in Haifa. He served in the camp for six years, and before leaving he completed a master’s degree in economics at the Technion. During these years he married Martha Molnar and their children – her father, who was born on 21.5.2000, Ziv, who was born on 5 December 2002 and his youngest son Yaron who was born on 18.7.2008 – four and a half months before his death. Asi’s father and brother, Assi was an avid motorcycle enthusiast, and during his life he joined his brother’s motorcycle trips abroad and in Italy, Germany, the USA, etc. Assi returned to serve at the Tel Hashomer base. As part of his job, he visited a car factory three times in the United States, planning and improving the vehicle for IDF use. His last job, commanding the vehicle factory at Camp 7000 in Haifa – a base that returned happily to him – lasted only seven months before his life was interrupted by a bitter and impetuous evening. 1.12.2008), in a road accident that occurred when he left his base at the southern entrance to Haifa. A driver who passed two traffic lights in red light hit Assi’s car and caused his mortal wound. Asi was rushed to Rambam Hospital, but the doctors’ resuscitation efforts failed and he died of his wounds, and another soldier who was traveling with him in the car was wounded.He celebrated his birthday with his three devoted and beloved friends on his “Forty-Year-old Walk” in South America. Assaf was laid to rest in the cemetery in Borgeta, his home he loved so much. Survived by a widow, three children – her eight-year-old father, Ziv, age six, and Yaron, a four and a half months old who never knew what a father, a mother and two broken brothers were. Asaf, the commander of Human Resources 7000, Colonel Amir Nitzan, said: “Assaf had a sharp razor-sharp understanding and execution ability that we do not meet every day. He was a big man, a sensitive person, loved and appreciated by many within and outside the unit. Assaf came from a very special family of root people and lovers of the land, and these qualities were embodied in his own image. He was an officer and commander with a very conspicuous presence, saying what was on his heart with a display of courage and personal integrity. Anyone who knew him in depth knew that it was a friend who was always willing to give a shoulder when necessary, to say a good word, to advise in times of trouble and to contribute beyond and beyond. His mouth and heart were equal. “On his grave, on the 30th anniversary of his downfall, his uncle Avishai told him:” Assi was cut off at the height of his flower. The Torah protected those who built a house and did not teach it, to those who planted a vineyard and did not desecrate it. But there is no one to protect anyone who less than five months ago had a child, a loved one who loved his family, his home and the trees in his yard, from going to the daily war on the roads. During the seven days of mourning, men and women came to whom Assi stamped his good mark and revealed to us the same side that was largely hidden from us – what had been in his eighteen years in the army. We have become acquainted with creativity, professionalism, friendship, humanity, humor and love of life, and our hearts ache for the loss of this great and charming man. Our hearts were proud when we learned that Assi fulfilled the highest ideal of all – being a human being. The seeds that had been planted in Assi by his father and mother, his grandmothers and grandfather, had yielded fruit. We are sure that his children – her father, Ziv and Yaron – will grow up and become human beings according to the size of their father. Assaf was handsome and handsome, peace-loving, wise and kind, especially modest and humble, never spoke or told of his deeds, and many of them learned of his family only after his fall. Who was sent by the management of the “Ofakim” school in Haifa, Assaf contributed to the integration of students with special needs at his base, and on his forty-first birthday, when he was gone, the family was invited to a camp in Assaf. The “Hammer”, the “Zeldot”, in various trucks, and especially the “Ziber” vehicle capable of moving in all the impossible places. Bar “son Asi himself from scrap rolled through the streets of the camp, the brainchild and creation. The first anniversary of his downfall, eulogized Lassie counterpart, Zeid Tabash:” A year has gone by since hearing the news will be taken from us prematurely member and commander, a man, a professional and a true friend of our loved ones gathered. A year has passed since her days and nights, and the pain is still burning, palpable and incomprehensible, almost on the dark and gloomy night of the accident that cut off his life’s work – a project characterized by enthusiastic and glorious action for the security of the country; In action wrapped in a sense of mission in every step and every move; In an activity wrapped in the style of leadership and leadership that serve as an example and example; In doing wrapped in friendship and true friendship; And performance with a lot of heart and lots of soul. The Berkowitz family, you can be proud that you raised and educated a wonderful son and brother; A great man, loved and admired by everyone who knew him. Asi, who taught you a healthy mind in a healthy body, was immortalized at the base of “Tel Hashomer” in the roomA gym established in his memory. The NESA people published an album in memory of him – an old olive tree is planted in the camp and a quote from his words: “The thinker for generations is planting trees.” As a direct continuation, his family decided to build a garden in his memory in Borgeta.
