Cohen, Shlomo

Son of Naomi and Benjamin, was born on 27.11.1962 in Haifa, the eldest son of Shlomo in his family, the fifth generation in Israel, and attended the Meguinim Elementary School and the Kiryat Haim High School until the eleventh grade . Afterward, he completed his studies in the “Mishlav” School of Economics and Sociology. From childhood, his parents had educated him to love the land. They traveled with him frequently and took part in many marches with him. Shlomo loved to sing Israeli songs, and accompanied himself with a guitar he played well. His friends often gathered for a poetry evening, and he accompanied their singing with the guitar. He was handsome, tall and strong. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement. He joined the “Mahanot Haolim” and was one of the founders of the “Lohameiten” Nahal group, and he was trained in Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, his letters and letters in school and in training, And with great humor.In January 1981, Shlomo enlisted with his nucleus to serve in the Paratroop Brigade. After a period of training, he took a course in driving an armored personnel carrier, and during his service Shlomo acquired many friends with his sense of humor, songs and music, and gathered friends around him in the evenings when his unit was free of military activity. Who were with him in the nucleus, held a combat diary from the moment they were deployed in one of the Upper Galilee settlements, when they separated from the nuclear blocks and crossed the Lebanese border. To the hospital in Safed, where he was transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem He died on the twenty-two Sivan Tsm”b (06/13/1982). 19 years old he was when he died. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon took his parents wrote: “Solomon gave his life for his country. He fell in the Peace for Galilee war, north of Libya, in the Bekaa Valley. He served loyally and with great devotion and was loved by all. “The commander of his unit wrote:” Shlomo fell as a combat soldier in the unit, who felt the firing of the cannons on the Galilee finger and stood by the order to destroy them. Shlomo was brought to the military cemetery in Haifa and left behind his parents and two brothers, and his friends published a pamphlet in memory of the four friends who died in the bombing of the planes in the Bekaa Valley.