Eliyahu, Ofer

Ben Aliza and Rahamim. Born on February 5, 1972 in Be’er Sheva, he studied at Netivot Yoram Elementary School and the Ye’elim Junior High School in Be’er Sheva and completed his studies at the A Comprehensive High School in Be’er Sheva. He was a naughty boy, and when he was in high school, he worked in his spare time and saved the money he bought from a motorcycle and was very proud of it. And Betar Beer Sheva. Ofer was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1990 and volunteered for a combat unit, joined the Givati ​​Brigade and completed a course with honors. After the course he served as a class sergeant. He was very devoted to his soldiers, who loved him and appreciated him for it. His battalion commander also assessed him as a very good soldier. Professional and investor. During his vacations he met with his many friends, but at the same time he helped his mother with the housework. On February 26, 1992, in Wadi al-Ayun in the security zone in Lebanon, Ofer fell in battle, when the ambush of our soldiers came under the fire of terrorists. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Be’er Sheva. On that day he was about to take a short break and celebrate his twentieth birthday that week. Survived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters – Yaron, Benny, Ruby, Vered and Hagit. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, then-defense minister Moshe Arens wrote: “Ofer served in the infantry battalion. He was a soldier who excelled in every mission and listened attentively. He bravely assaulted his soldiers until he was hit. Ofer went willingly on the mission and saw it as a sacred mission. He was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant after death. “His parents donated to his memory prayer books and a memorial candle lamp to the Mekor Torah and Chaim synagogue in Be’er Sheva.