Cohen, Yaron

Their son-in-law of Batya and Yehuda. He was born on February 25, 1965 in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. He studied for one year in his kibbutz and completed his elementary and high school studies at the Sha’ar Hanegev School of Electronics. And so his teacher remembers: “I discover that before Yaron, the student is a Yaron – a child – a boy with wonderful human qualities, full of respect for others, and first of all toward his parents: the mitzvah of honoring the father and mother looks like a root in his bones. The parents … and beyond all this there is Yaron the friend, the bad one – the favorite of his friends … He always has a good word here, a smile there, a little joke here, a serious attitude there. Already as a baby he stood out in his comfortable and quiet character and these qualities accompanied him throughout his twenty-one years. In the company of children that was just established in Kfar Aza, a company that was looking for its way, Yaron’s involvement in providing the desired direction of development was felt because of the strong caring he felt. Yaron was a gifted athlete, was very active in diving and was a member of the Shaar Hanegev basketball team. When his time came to join the kibbutz, Yaron joined the dairy industry. Thanks to the maturity and responsibility that he discovered, he quickly acquired a place of honor and appreciation in the industry. He easily took control of the milking and farming machinery and was proud of his muddy boots and black hands of machine oil. Yaron joined the IDF in October 1984 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. After completing basic training, he completed a brigade commander’s course, and in recognition of that, he remained in the battalion and became one of its commanders: Yaron was appointed as a platoon sergeant and under his command he received the Department of Radiology. As commander, Yaron did beyond what his position required, and for this he won the assessment of his commanders and subordinates. On December 1, 1985, Yaron was killed in a road accident on the Beit She’an-Beit Zera road and was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in his kibbutz. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. He was twenty-one years old when he fell. Yaron left behind his parents, a brother – Doron and three sisters – Orit, Ravit and Sharon. In his obituary, his commander said: “We will all remember you as a smiling person who took everything easily, but dealt with the problems in an exemplary adult manner … a commander who did not hesitate to deal with his superiors in order to take care of the little soldier … You were – professionalism, diligence, diligence, courage and command ability – but you were an exemplary person. ” In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the commander of his unit wrote: “Yaron arrived at the battalion as part of the route of the kibbutzim … He cared a lot for his soldiers and it was important for him to feel good and to have nothing to do with them. It was his loyalty to the job, the seriousness and the responsibility he displayed that characterized his character. ” His family published a booklet in his memory, including his life history and things in his memory. His sister, who is two and a half years younger than him, made a documentary about him and presented him as a final work in her video studies at Sha’ar Hanegev College. On the tenth anniversary of the fall of Yaron, his sister wrote a poem in his memory. The song was composed by kibbutz member Reuven Doman and written by Michal Weiner