Son of Mira and Ron, was born on the 5th of Nissan 5738 (2.5.1978) on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Before he was one year old, the family moved to Ramat Gan. Shlomi was a quiet, introverted and intelligent boy. Brother and wonderful friend, supportive and loving Aviram and Maayan. Shlomi studied at the Mordei Hagetaot School in Ramat Gan and in the town of Katuna in the United States, where the family lived for several years. When he was eight years old, Shlomi was diagnosed as a gifted child and participated in groups of youth seeking art and science. He also played the trumpet in the Ramat Gan orchestra. He attended high school in Ramat Gan, where he was known as a quiet and shy boy, a computer enthusiast and a physicist. He was responsible for computing the school’s physics labs and spent many hours outside school hours. Shlomi’s penchant for computer love and the love of literature in all its forms was apparent at an early age. He taught himself to program and operate the PC even before he could write. In his room you could always find science books of various fields and encyclopedias, the values of which were constantly memorized. A special fondness for adventure literature, which aroused his creative and fruitful imagination, and was expressed mainly in the participation and leadership of groups ‘Dungeons and Dragons’, which deepened in reading and acting. He soon became a master of these groups. He organized, together with a group of youths, national conventions of role-playing and published the IGOR journal. Another channel of interest Shlomi found in literature about distant lands, their culture and their history. In 1995 he made a trip with the youth delegation to Strasbourg, a visit that was remembered as an enriching experience of meetings with new people and places with an ancient history. When he was sixteen, he served as a tour guide for his family on a family trip to Greece. He loved the mythology of Greece and its glorious past and was well versed in it. In each site he could spontaneously tell a suitable story. During his high school studies, Shlomi was infected with the ‘political germ’ and was active in the Meretz party and served as chairman of the Meretz youth branch in Kfar Saba where he was active in organizing political activities. Against violence and for a better future.In early August 1996 Shlomi joined the IDF. He asked to serve in a combat unit and was stationed in the Armored Corps, where he underwent a combat course and continued directly to a tank commanders course. Shlomi liked the service in the armored corps despite the physical difficulties, and as usual he studied and studied the heritage of the corps and took pride in it. He asked that he be assigned to an operational battalion, but was transferred to training, a field that excelled in him, and the last team under his guidance was awarded the ‘Outstanding Brigade Staff’. Prior to his discharge from compulsory service, he asked to sign another eight months in the career army, and his unit received his request with joy. As the unit commander, Lieutenant Colonel Gil, wrote: “Shlomi symbolized for me the perfect commander – a Zionist, caring, enthusiastic and yet cool, modest and disciplined. Served most of his service. I could not wish myself a better candidate. Two weeks later, the results of the last course came, including the winning of Shlomi’s team’s first place. I was not surprised. “In his last position as NCO, he enjoyed the work and felt that he was contributing and fulfilling. The tank commanders saw him as a personal example and a source of advice and solutions to many problems. After his discharge from the career army, he planned to travel throughout the United States for two months, and then continue his studies and fund them, in part, with his salary in the career army. On the 16th of Tishrei 5769 (16.9.1999) Shlomi fell in the line of duty when he was twenty-one years old and he was laid to rest in the military section of Beit ElamiIn Hod Hasharon. Survived by his parents, brother and sister. Gil, Shlomi’s battalion commander, eulogized him: “… During a year and a half I watched you in classes, in the field of exercises and in exercises on the ground, a model commander, modest but at the same time able to open your mouth when necessary and talk about it. Shlomi, educated generations of soldiers, some of them already commanders in the battalion and there are even officers, all of them cherish you and all of them impressed by your personality and your ways … “The family produced two films in memory of Shlomi, edited from a large photographic material that was collected over time From Shlomi’s life. Shlomi has set up a website at www.shlomi.jenik.com. After his death, the family added things in his memory.
