Son of Zehava and Yosef. Doron was born in Tel Aviv on August 12, 1981. A younger brother to the tank. “Our Doron was born two months before the date,” his parents said, “a small pagan who knew how to fight and survive. Doron grew up and was educated in Rishon Letzion. He attended elementary school “Hadarim”, continued to junior high school “Zalman Aran” and finished 12th grade at the Gan Nahum Gymnasium “Since childhood, he has traveled extensively with his family in Israel. I always got to know that Doron takes every route at least twice – he leads the walking group for the first time, and the second time, Goes back to help the teachers and students who are left behind … “Pesach, a Bible teacher and principal of the school where Doron studied, said:” I was privileged to teach Doron in 10th grade. From then on, I remember him from time to time, an excellent student, a well-educated and gifted boy, pleasant, smart and sensitive, a classmate of all sizes. “Doron was always surrounded by good friends, loved and loved by them, and his friends from childhood who accompanied him all his life.” From an early age, he developed a great love for all kinds of sports, especially basketball. In a school delegation to Germany and the Netherlands he asked for a picture of the stadium of Amsterdam (Ike). We drove for three hours to get a picture of him … just for Doron. “Doron loved to spend time with his friends, mostly quiet entertainment, and he loved music, and the Ethnix band was one of his greatest lovers, and he grew up very young and very beautiful. , Who, without his fuss, always knew how to achieve what he wanted: He was a man who was able to plan his ways and actions, responsible and modest, interested in people around him. Malka, Doron’s educator, wrote about him in his yearbook: “A rare species in our world, every inch of his body symbolizes infinite kindness, love of others and consideration for the other.” “Doron is a light and happiness that never ends,” his parents wrote, “Doron is a smile, a kind of half-smile that contained all his personality, a shy, modest smile that seemed to say, ‘I’m fine, I’m with you but do not focus too much on me, “He said. Doron joined the IDF in July 2000 and served as a tank soldier in the Armored Corps, and his parents told him: “At the age of ten, Doron decided on his military future. His love for the tank only increased over the years. It is difficult to understand what makes a young boy, almost a child, decide on his military future. Maybe need to give? Maybe the need to contribute? Doron loved his army service and believed in what he did. “Raz, who served with Doron, said:” During training Doron was wounded in the knee after the cannon was lowered and the anvil hit his leg, and as a result he spent two weeks in the gimmicks. Doron always volunteered to carry jerrycans, stretchers, radios, whatever, as long as there was something weight on his back, to feel that he was contributing and helping the company. ” After serving as a tank crew, Doron underwent a course for tank commanders. Ohad said: “I had the privilege of being Doron’s platoon commander in a tank commanders’ course, in which I learned to know him very closely and to re-admire his unique character, his endless desire to help his friends, to do the best he knew and to do, In its cost. ” Asaf said: “We were together for four months during a commanders’ course, and Doron stunned me with the amount of love I hadHe had a state. He always told me it was a great honor to die for the state and I would tease him about it. During the course I discovered that Doron is a true friend. He was not willing to hear that someone was doing more than he did, whether it was on the tank or on duty duty or on the rotation of the radio in a navigation week. “After the course, Doron served as a tank commander in the Adam Battalion. Doron, Lieutenant Colonel Guy: “Doron was an outstanding commander who had a strong desire to contribute. He was one of the most important pillars in the company in general and in the department in particular. Doron believed in the rightness of the road with all his might … Doron was a man without many like him. He was characterized by tolerance, caring for others, and striving for perfection. He managed to establish a unique relationship with the soldiers and commanders of the company, and especially with his team. “My crew came to Tekoa to ambush every night and there, eight hours a night in a tank, I discovered that before Doron was a commander and before he was a friend or a member of the team, He was a human being! And a good person! After the week in Tekoa there was another one at Herodium, and there the crew was tired of being in a ambush tank, and Doron simply held the team together only by taking care of us … “Matan wrote:” Doron was the embodiment of good and motivation – you were the heart of the company, And your soldiers … Any task that was – you wanted to carry it out, you were motivated and ‘poisoned’ and projected it on everyone around you. ” Doron fell in operational activity in the northern Gaza Strip on the 13th of Adar 5763 (February 15, 2003). In the morning, during the opening of an axis, the tank mounted a bomb. It burned for several hours and all four crew members perished. With Doron, the tank commander, they fell: First Sergeant Alexei Balicki, Sergeant Itai Mizrahi and Sergeant Noam Menachem Begun. Doron was twenty-one and a half years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. Survived by parents and sister. “Doron is a great and smiling gift that was given to us for a borrowed time … The big eyes that were always asked,” Doron’s parents wrote. , The dark eyes that smiled, the eyes that expressed love and penetrated many hearts, were extinguished forever, not yet twenty-two, and our paths separated forever, they wrote so much about you, and you were different, always prominent, always giving, pleasant and making peace … whatever we wanted You had to come home safely, but you did not come back and you will not come back. ” On the Internet, a website was established in memory of Doron Cohen and Yuval Shapira – his good friend who grew up with him, and was killed three years ago in an accident. URL: dayinheaven.com. On the site are Doron’s resume, pictures of him from his family life, friends and army, songs he loved, announcements about memorials, the possibility of lighting a memorial candle and things written in his memory. At the entrance to the site, members of the family write: “This site was built and built in memory of Doron, the beloved person we were privileged to meet, his winning smile, his constant help and the delicacy of his power. We had the feeling that we were with Doron, and we hope that with the help of the site, you will meet Doron more, and he will remain in our hearts forever. ” Daniela wrote: “Dina, I do not know where to start, it’s hard for me to describe this feeling I’m experiencing, you’re so lacking in me … I have a hard time thinking about you in the past, sometimes I really want to think it’s just a dream, This is not a dream, not a nightmareproperly. This reality is so difficult – so painful. I sit here trying to figure out why you went so young, so fast. Dina will understand, I’m broken! I miss you, you miss me here … It’s inconceivable that you will not be here with us anymore. If I had the ability to show you one thing – I would show you how special you were, how rare you were, and that there were no other people like you. You’re so special. It is impossible to describe such a feeling in words at all. It hurts me so much. “When we sit and remember you, Doron, your smile rises before your eyes, the palm of your huge, warm hand that is extended toward us with all your heart and infinite kindness … How are you? You’ve always helped when we needed to, whether it’s computers and if that’s all … Doron is an amazing person, unique and unique, and will always be our example of the heart of gold. “Doron was a teacher. Doron – pure and pure and innocent. A smile of constant happiness on the face. We said – Doron is an angel child. We said – Doron is a pure soul boy. We said – Doron is a treasure boy. A single and special child, and no one will testify that this is Doron. So how come all metaphors have become reality? And how is it that now Doron – an angel? And how is it that now Doron – a soul? And how is it now that Doron is a treasure? “The twenty-one years of Doron and the gift / do not have to talk only to look at the crazy / very special picture / smile that froze forever in such a moment.” Noy, a friend of Doron’s, wrote: “… You left all of us here crying for you and you left. It’s not right for you to go without saying hello, you’ve always been chasing people because you were not sure if you told them goodbye or not … My sister’s song asked my mother if you were laughing now. And I really hope you’re well where you are. We are here, we will never forget you and we will try to strengthen your family as much as possible, this is what you would like us to do. “Deganit Tsabari sang the song” Doron, “written by a family friend:” God forgot an angel here, , That Doron does not take back / every one wants you, to ask you to see / and I’m left alone to live with all the love, with all this love … And now with my eyes facing up, and time has not dulled / and now my eyes ask from below, What will happen tomorrow? … “Doron’s memory is commemorated in a computer room set up in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Haifa.
