Golan (Goldstein), Doron

Son of Menachem and Pnina. He was born on 15 September 1951 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the “Tel Nordoi” elementary school and completed his studies at the Municipal High School – both in Tel Aviv. When he completed his studies he was awarded a certificate of excellence for social activities in the national leadership of “Youth for Youth”. Within the framework of “Youth for Youth” he began his activities with a blind youth; He also coordinated two classes at a school in Jaffa and worked as a volunteer at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. After that, he was elected by the sixth class as a representative in the municipal leadership, who elected him chairman; From there he came to the national leadership and in the seventh grade was elected president of “Youth for Youth” in Israel. In the summer of 1966 he took a training course in the Gadna Brigade in Jalil. During the pre-Six Day War, he was an active member of the “emergency headquarters” for youth in the Tel Aviv municipality. In 1967, he was elected secretary of the youth city of Tel Aviv. In the summer of 1968 he was a member of the delegation to the United States as president of “Youth for Youth” Israel. The purpose of the trip was to strengthen ties with Jewish youth in the Diaspora and especially with the Bnei Brith youth organization. Doron learned a lot from them in all areas, especially in the areas of self-leadership and democracy within the organization. In January 1969, Doron organized a conference of youth volunteers in Tel Aviv for the IDF, where he agreed on courses for IDF volunteers to provide suitable training for students. The question that has plagued boys since the Six-Day War was: What is going to happen on the home front when our brothers are at the front? The answer was found by a first group of Tel Aviv municipal high school students who began to prepare themselves for auxiliary security functions during emergencies. This project was initiated by the “Youth for Youth” organization, which is part of the Municipal Education Division. During his high school studies, he organized and taught youth courses at “Youth” (a youth village of Hadassah) for the members of “Youth for Youth” in Israel and in Kfar Maccabiah for Israeli youth and American youth. He organized the Druze youth in “Youth for Youth” and was declared a mukhtar in Isfiya. He found great satisfaction in helping others and the training seminars continued to broaden his mind. Management of the camps as chairman and the development of good civic consciousness fostered his personality. Doron was drafted into the IDF in mid-1969 and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, but on Monday, January 7, 1972, he was taken to an eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. The commander of his unit: “Doron was among the best officers in the unit. Always first for volunteers. Lively, cheerful one loved by both his commanders and his soldiers. Doron’s way was not easy when he came to us from a pilot course. – – – Doron, thanks to his ability and ambition, knew to move forward and establish his position in the unit – and went to officers’ course. During the course Doron was afraid (a false fear, of course) that he was not among the candidates to return to the unit and his fears he wrote in a letter sent to me. So it was clear to me that people like him were the people I wanted to see as officers in my unit. In fact, in the short period of time he served as an officer in the unit, he proved that we had not been wrong. “On the Sabbath after his fall he was about to be elected head of the Bnai Brith bureau, In the fields of sociology, education and community work, Doron was a gifted painter, and on the thirtieth day of his fall, a memorial service was held at the Ironi Hey high school, and an exhibition of his paintings was held there. A day of sports during the Passover holiday for all the “Youth for Youth” branches in Israel and the best branch is awarded a trophy From the United States for the purpose of bringing in Israeli youthTo visit the United States in order to nurture the connection between Israeli youth and American youth – a project that Doron was involved in; In the Dekel hall in Tel Aviv, a volunteer artists’ concert was held in which a special fund was set up for an annual scholarship for higher education for young people who will be committed to working with youth who are cultivating, and a public auction of photographs donated by painters and collectors. The “Youth for Youth” organization devoted one of his journal’s pamphlets to the memory of Doron as a “conscience” and a prominent place was dedicated to him in the booklet “Shofar” in the newsletter.