Chen, Kfir

Ben Kochba and desire. Kfir was born in Gan Yavne on July 12, 1975. After completing his studies Kfir joined the IDF. He served in the air force. On 4 May 2009, after serving in the Israel Police, Kfir joined the Israel Prison Service. His last job was head of the construction maintenance team in the Logistics Department. Kfir married Rivka, and the couple lived in Gan Yavneh with their children Dolev, Naama, and Lia. Kfir fell in operational activity during the Carmel fire. On Thursday, 25 Kislev, on the 2nd of December 2010, a forest fire burned on Mount Carmel, always green. The fire, known as the “Carmel disaster”, the largest in the country’s history, destroyed a forest, grove and residential buildings in a large area of the Carmel Park and surrounding communities. Kfir was thirty-five years old when he fell He was brought to eternal rest in the military section of the Gan Yavne cemetery, where he was survived by a wife and three children, parents, brothers and sisters. Kfir wrote the verse: “water will not be able to extinguish love and rivers will not wash it.” The victims of the fire disaster are commemorated by a monument built in the Carmel Forest near Kibbutz Beit Oren. The full story of life will be published later.