Biton, Yoram

Son of Simcha and Uri, was born on February 19, 1962, in Afula. Yoram was a member of a family that settled in the moshav and found a livelihood in agriculture. He grew up in the “Dvora” moshav in the Ta’anach region, where he studied at the “Yad la – Chisha” elementary school. Yoram loved his family’s farm and loved to work in it. After completing elementary school, he continued to study at the “Nir HaEmek” study farm in Afula. Yoram often left school in the afternoons to help his father work in the farm. Even when he was a little boy in the kindergarten, Yoram stood out for his willingness to help. “Yoram was always willing to help,” says his teacher. “So it was as if it were obvious to see him years later on the tractor, going to the fields to help his father.” “Yoram was a motivated boy with a strong will and tremendous ability, he had resourcefulness and wherever he went,” said the sports teacher, who knew him in the ninth grade of the school. When Yoram was in the 11th grade, he was already volunteering for a combat unit, and when he reached the army he volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, “There was a wonderful sense of mechanics in Yoram, so it’s no wonder that his armored personnel carrier was always the patient and the cleanest.” This is how his friend from the unit relates. The order was not only in the great tools, but in everything that belonged to Yoram: in his bed, in his room, and of course in his backpack. Even when he took out a cake that his mother had sent him, it was wrapped in neat paper and tasted like a loving home. Yoram loved his home, and he used to praise and glorify his parents and family. Yoram underwent a commander’s course, and planned to undergo an officers’ course, but when the Peace for the Galilee war broke out, his unit went up to Lebanon and Yoram was assigned as a driver in the armored personnel carrier. When Yoram left the armored personnel carrier, he was hit in the chest by gunfire from the ambush, and he fell in the line of duty on the day of Tu B’Sivan, 5762 (1962), and was brought to rest in the cemetery of Moshav Dvora, And his family donated a Torah library to the synagogue in Moshav Dvora, to commemorate Yoram.