Bunish, Yitzhak

Belina and Baruch’s eldest son. Isaac was born in France, in the city of Paris, on the 23rd of Av 5767 (31.7.1956). He was named Philip-Isaac after his maternal grandfather. Firstborn brother. Yitzhak grew up in Paris, where he attended an elementary school for boys and went on to the Walter High School. From childhood, Yitzhak absorbed his mother’s stories about the Holocaust and her family who perished. When he began high school, Israel won the Six-Day War, which brought great pride to the entire family. Shortly afterwards, he found an antisemitic inscription on the wall of the school. He was not silent, and at his request, his mother took care of the school administration and the address was removed. Yitzhak began high school in classical studies, but later moved to modern studies. During his studies, in 1968, the student revolt took place in France, and Yitzhak was swept into the ranks of the rebels and was one of the leaders of the protestors for a better future. After the events in high school he became interested in the fields of spirit, theater and music – he played the piano and saxophone, among others – and in 1973, when he finished his studies for a matriculation certificate, decided to study the performing arts. When he tried to join the Conservatory, Yitzhak joined a group of actors, played in several small plays, stood out for his performance and was even invited to participate in a major performance in Paris. At the same time, Yitzhak began working as a ski instructor at the Cultural Center of the Jewish Social Fund (CCVL), and shortly thereafter decided to leave the group of actors and began a process of returning to his Jewish origins. “The climax was that October 1973, at the height of the Yom Kippur War, when Philip and I sat in front of the television screen, following the efforts of the IDF to regain control of the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights . The tension is so great that when Phillip repeats one of the nonsense in which he brainwashed the Palestinians, I just fall on him… I was mad, but a blessed madness that at once removed unbearable feeling from me, and above it a collection of vanities. It was a moment of sobriety and understanding that all the things he heard did not match our culture, our religion, and all that was dear to us, that gave our lives and strength to our survival. Something changed from that evening on. The process began slowly but surely. Yitzhak worked in the Jewish cultural center and in September 1980, when he completed his work, immigrated to Israel, and in December 1980, Yitzhak enlisted in the IDF, a short service for new immigrants. Upon his release, he began working for the Jewish Agency and the Association of French Immigrants as an escort of Jewish students who arrived in Israel. Yitzhak continued to take an interest in his sources, and in September 1981 he began studying Torah studies at the Ma’ayanot Institute under the leadership of Rabbi Leon Ashkenazi-Manito. Jewish values ​​and religious Zionism. “During his studies, Yitzhak met Rivka (Celine), also an immigrant from France, and on September 16, 1982, they married at a ceremony held in the ruins of the ancient synagogue in Herodion. Partners in the construction of the tent “El David”, named after two of their friends – Eli Pressman and David Rosenfeld – who were murdered, and after the wedding they moved to Yeshu In Tekoa, east of Gush Etzion, waiting for the permanent permit to be taken in. “Shortly after Yitzhak’s return from his service in Lebanon, the permit to establish El David arrived. The settlement soon became ten caravans on a summit overlooking the Judean Desert, a secluded and wild place with a breathtaking view. How much my husband and I loved to spend Shabbat there in peace and quiet, in the company of Yitzhak and RavWe would care without fear beyond the boundaries of the settlement, among the surrounding rocks and discover in the spring tens of thousands of small pink, yellow and purple flowers that grew out of nowhere, only according to the madness of the spirit, the spirit of which the nomads lived. ” In 1984, the family moved to Kiryat Arba, where they were born. Six children: Yehuda, Naomi, Hedva, Yochai, Noa and Oz, who began to work in Kiryat Arba as an educator, Stam – writing Torah scrolls, tefillin and doorposts – and was the author of the doorposts won many compliments. Friends spoke about his life in the Yishuv: “Yitzhak invested all his energies in everything he did, with the tireless effort to do as much as possible, because the time was short and the work was very great. , Giving and great dedication. ” At the end of the 1980s, during a ski trip to Mount Hermon, Yitzhak met the soldiers of the “White Patrol”, the IDF’s Alufinist unit, who at the age of three learned to surf, asked to meet their commander, offered to join the unit and, “His mother Balina says:” … the next morning, the first exit to the area, he is loaded on his back equipment and a radio weighing about thirty pounds and starting to climb. Usually after half an hour they change, this time not. He climbs for three hours with his load crashing his back. They are stunned, and finally they are the ones who break down and many who will take the transmitter-receiver. On the descent to Ski Izhak it feels as if wings have sprouted and a stylized track is being made without any stumbling. The shooting training turns out to be no less convincing. “I certainly could not refuse him anymore,” says Shimon, the commander. From then on, Yitzhak served in the reserve unit of the Alpine unit in Hermon, where he served as a ski instructor for the soldiers and was a partner in a number of successful rescue missions. And later on as the deputy director of the security department, and then he undertook to manage the security department in the Yishuv, and in the following years he established an extensive security infrastructure that combined the civilian forces with the army and raised eyebrows among the army and settlement people who lived In the area, Yitzhak established classes He established a center for emergency medicine and a security center with advanced means, and participated as a member of a team that dealt with writing military doctrines and military and civilian orders, and over the years he was a partner in saving many civilians and soldiers at various events in the sector. And Yitzhak was a wanted lecturer on security issues. “The head of the General Security Service, who occasionally attended lectures, said:” Yitzhak was not just a security officer, he was the security officer of the IDF. At the end of Cheshvan 5763, Yitzchak and Rivka married their eldest daughter Maayan, in a great celebration that took place in Jerusalem and Kiryat Arba, where his mother described the celebration and the dancing, and two weeks later he fell in battle. On November 15, 2002, terrorists opened fire at IDF soldiers patrolling Hebron, on the worshipers’ route between Hebron and Kiryat Arba. In the ensuing battle, which lasted until the house where the terrorists were held, twelve soldiers fell, including three members of the emergency squadOf Kiryat Arba. One of the casualties was Staff Sergeant Yitzhak Buenish, the security officer of Kiryat Arba and the commander of the emergency squad who was called from his home. In the battle, another eleven soldiers fell: Colonel Dror Yitzhak Weinberg, Superintendent Samih Swidan, Lieutenant Danny Cohen, Sergeant Yeshayahu Davidov, Sergeant Alexander Duchan, Sergeant Igor Drovitzky, Sergeant Nathaniel Machluf, Sergeant David Marcus, Sergeant First Alexander Zvitman, Second Sergeant Tomer Nov, Sergeant Shani Gad Rahamim. Yitzhak was forty-six years old when he died. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem. Survived by a woman, four daughters and three sons, parents and sister. In April 2005, the Chief of the General Staff, Moshe Ya’alon, received a commendation for her part in the operation: “When Yitzhak learned of the many casualties, In the alley and the fall of the brigade commander in the battle, he took command and courageously and determinedly led the squad to fight the terrorists and rescue the wounded, Yitzhak was killed and killed in the fighting, demonstrating his exemplary leadership and exemplary leadership in combat, showing loyalty, commitment and dedication. An end to the residents of his city, to his friends and to IDF soldiers. “Rivka, Yitzhak’s wife, described the battle Fell: “They were dressed in white, just finished wine to sanctify the holy Sabbath eve, ‘the bread will perform two innocent. They had not yet had the chance to eat the Sabbath meal when they stood up for the sacred mission of reading the pager: ‘wounded soldiers, trapped soldiers’. Without hesitation, with determination and devotion, they run out. The look ahead, the family behind, the expression of pain on their faces. Wearing a blanket of faith in Hashem and in the justice of the way … Yitzchak organizes a force composed of soldiers and commanding officers, entering shoulder to shoulder, white shirts and IDF uniforms. To save lives, to strive for contact with the terrorists. With complete faith, in the fear of God, exalted with infinite devotion. “And behold, a ladder is placed on the ground, and its head reaches heaven, and behold, the angels of Gd ascend and descend upon it.” They were twelve, the twelve tribes of the Lord who ascended into heaven on that holy evening, the parasha of Vayetze. “They wrote about Isaac:” And it came to pass after these things, and the Lord tried Abraham, and Abraham said unto him, “And take up Isaac, as you ascend the mountain of Hebron, when your face turns to Mount Moriah, and your soul shall depart from the land of Judah, and turn away from Ziva, turn to the glory and glory of the land.” Which was taught by our teacher Rav Yehuda Ashkenazi. He ordered the way of return to identify Hebrew. And you sat down at me. By virtue of Rabbi Manito’s teachings you chose to be a man of security because in fact he taught you to see in this your mission. You came from a faraway land, as you set your way to your Jewish identity more vigorously, and then you came to the Holy Land, You sat in Herodion, sat down at “El David” and then sat down in Hebron and asked to find rest from the scribes, but was called to the flag. At the same time, he was playing the guitar, piano or saxophone, guiding the fighters and conducting a cold-blooded operation, and at the same time, with the warmth of the heart, sang a melody that I will never forget. ” And different qualities, but there is one measure that was only in Isaac, this is the degree of “Isaac”. Itzhakiyot is a measure of thinking big about things that can help Kiryat Arba and other communitiessea. It’s going to get to the smallest details in the biggest project, and to deal with everything with all your heart … It’s to hear workers in distress, to give advice and always with incredible wisdom, while understanding the depth of the soul of the seeker of advice … Shake his way. ‘ And in his room was his living faith that says: “The one who takes care of the year sows wheat, who takes care of the years that plant trees, and who cares for generations, educates people. ‘” Blina, Yitzhak’s mother, wrote the book “The Children of the Hero, the Power of Blessings.” In French and Hebrew, in which the mother tries to analyze “how this French-born second-generation child in Paris from his mother, who could have remained a simple French Jew who lived his life in peace … How this child became a symbol of religious religious Zionism, , Until they read about him as well as his two friends who fell with him the verse, “How did the heroes fall, the proclamations of all the lions increased?” (Shmuel II, 1) “On the anniversary of the fall of my people A Torah Scroll in memory of Yitzhak was brought to the kindergarten of his son Oz in Kiryat Arba, and the Kiryat Arba security center was called the “Yitzhak Buenish Center” and a memorial plaque was erected on the wall for the three fallen soldiers. At the level of Mamra in Kiryat Arba, the “Beit Dror and Yitzhak” residential wing was named after the two fallen soldiers, the commander of the military force and the commander of the emergency squad. Members of the unit also initiated a memorial film for Yitzhak. In memory of Yitzhak, every year on Jerusalem Day, 28 Iyar, a bicycle trip from Kiryat Arba to Jerusalem, a forty-kilometer journey by hundreds of youth on their shirts reads: “Kiryat Arba youth immigrate to Jerusalem on Yitzhak’s way.” Yitzhak, A man of family, an educator, a man of Torah, in his modest, quiet way, paved the way for our eternal love for the Land of Israel and for our safety and faith in our path and our right in Hebron and throughout our land. Joy, and complete faith in God Almighty in complications and difficult times, he gave us from his springs like water Which penetrate deeply and express tremendous powers … And Isaac no longer walks between us and this is our hearts, but his image and spirit accompany us forever and through us paved, and it rises and plows his manner here, and his saying says life, life to the world.