Cohen, Amos

The youngest son of Yehudit and Michael Hacohen, who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s from Iran and settled in Pardes Hannah. Amos was born on July 30, 1962 in Pardes Hannah. He graduated from Yeshurun ​​Elementary School, continued to study for two years in an agricultural school – both in Pardes Hanna – and completed his studies at the Ort-Shomron vocational school in Binyamina, specializing in fine mechanics. Amos was loved by the children of Pardes Hannah, who crowded around him and asked him to tell them stories, and about the local youth who worked as part of a “bad” youth club in a deserted shelter. Amos loved sports: soccer and swimming, and was involved in the development of his physical fitness, but his great love was the farm and everything related to it. He grew pigeons in his yard, Bedouin chickens and fighting chickens, sheep and rabbits. Amos saw his future in the cultivation of vineyards that his family had acquired with great effort in the vicinity of Givat Ada. Amos was drafted into the IDF in early November 1980 and volunteered to serve in the Golani infantry brigade, and he was a good and devoted soldier, and he was chosen as an excellent company soldier. Amos was always busy and preoccupied, and his commanders rarely saw him, and his excellence was for the sake of the battalion and the company. He served as a machine gunner and even passed a sniper course, and his comrades-in-arms, who loved and admired him, said: “All that Amos does is good.” On the 15th of Menachem Av 5742 (4.8.1982), Amos fell in battle in Lebanon during the Peace for Galilee War, and was brought to rest in the Pardes Hanna military cemetery. After his death, he was promoted to the rank of corporal. Amos left his parents, two brothers and a sister. In his letter of consolation, his commander wrote: “When Amos left us, the battalion remained orphaned by one of its warriors … The good, his diligence, and his honesty were obvious in every way he went. Words can not express this … He never complained about difficulties and problems.”