Brenner, Daniel-Eliezer

Son of Shoshana and Shlomo, was born on November 9, 1951, in Chicago, United States, and immigrated to Israel in 1969. Danny attended the Akiva elementary school in Chicago and in the first grade he excelled in all his studies. After graduating from elementary school, Danny went to study at a high school yeshiva of the “Beit Midrash for Torah”, where he also excelled in the study of the holy and the secular, and on Saturdays Danny served as a counselor at the Bnei Akiva branch and in the summer In 1969, after graduating from high school, Danny immigrated to Israel with his family, where he was a member of a training program at Kibbutz Sa’ad and joined a Nahal group that was annexed to Chai Castle And served in the squad commander of the Infantry Battalion-PIR. Afterward, he enrolled in physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University. During this period, the Yom Kippur War broke out. Danny fought in the Golan, in the ranks of the paratroopers. In the reserve service, he was able to serve as a security guard, but he chose to serve in a combat unit of a parachute infantry unit, in which he also fell, and after the war Danny began his academic studies, completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics and chemistry. The Master noted that only a man of great willpower and talent like him was able to complete this task with such great success and success, because he was a full-time employee who avoided working on Saturdays and holidays, and spent another year studying the Weizmann Institute of Science The Institute’s Feinberg Graduate School, whose instructors and colleagues saw it as a rising star in the skies of science According to his doctoral dissertation, Danny has shown diligence, perseverance, original thinking and performance, and has contributed to the establishment of a laboratory that has not only served his research but also that of others. At the Institute, and would be a kind of hand in his memory: Danny was accepted by everyone who knew him closely, characterized by modesty and humility, and volunteered for the promotion of Perach, a mentoring project. When one student’s mother pleaded with him to receive payment, he refused firmly and offered her a “compromise” to donate the money to charity. He taught summer students in his profession, and spent every day on a page of Gemara with Rabbi Hacohen-Kook. Danny fell in battle in Lebanon on June 8, 1982, in the central square in Sidon, while his group tried to clear the main intersection of terrorist activity. Danny was laid to rest in a cemetery in Pardes Hannah. He left behind a wife-Varda to the house of Gerfredt, parents, brother-in-law and sister-Esti. His commander said that during many years of service in the unit, Danny stood out as a soldier who performed his role with courage, with extraordinary self-control and with complete faith in his way and deeds. The Feinberg Graduate School has decided unanimously to name one of the prizes that it awards each year to its outstanding students. Thus Danny’s name will be associated with the names of the best students, whose place was undoubtedly among them.