Biton, Roee

Ben Yaffa and Amram. Roee was born in Kiryat Gat on August 9, 1981. He was the second of six children in the family – three boys and three girls – “a special child, charming and loved to help.” Roee enlisted in the IDF and served in the Border Police. Shortly after his release, on 23 September 2003, he enlisted in the Israel Prison Service. Roee was initially placed as a security guard in the Ohalei Kedar Detention Center and later served in several security positions, the last of which was deputy commanding officer. At the same time, he studied for a bachelor’s degree in criminology, and then went on to the officer course in the special course. Roi met his wife Liron when he was nineteen. “A fateful relationship,” she calls it since both were born on the same date. They had a daughter – Amit. Meishar Roy fell in the Carmel disaster. On Thursday, 25 Kislev, Class A. At 15:30, the cadets’ bus moved between ancient quarries and Beit Oren, followed by police cars. The fire broke through the walls of the bus, huge walls of fire blocked the traffic artery, seized everything, and at the peak of every shred of life, forty-four men and women perished, thirty-seven of them officers of the Prisons Service Officers, , Three firemen and three police officers, and Roee was twenty-nine years old when he fell. waslaid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Gat, leaving behind a pregnant woman and a daughter, and shortly after his death, his son Liam was born.