Son of Rachel and my father. He was born on Friday, 12 February 1970, in Ramat Gan, where he lost some of his hearing due to illness, but deafness did not prevent him from attending regular and regular schools. Ronen studied at the Yigal Allon School in Givatayim, where he was a good student, and in the lower grades he became bored with the lessons because they were easy to see. This disaster severely damaged Ronen, who was very attached to his father. He was clever and intelligent. His intense love of reading accompanied him throughout his life. At five, he read well. His favorite gifts were books. He had a large library and he kept his books well. Every year, during the Hebrew Book Week, he would go out with his father among the bookstores and return happily and cheerfully with a great ‘spoil’. Even after his father’s death he did not give up his practice, went out alone or with friends and bought himself books. He also subscribed to the library and changed books frequently. Ronen was a lover of the librarians in the Beit Shazar Library in Givatayim and is friendly with them. At the age of youth he “fell in love” with science fiction books and purchased many books, which financed them from the pocket money and money he earned during the summer vacation. Besides reading, Ronen liked to build models of airplanes, ships and cars, reached a high level of skill in this field and built complicated models. His classmates, who knew about his hobby, bought him a large, complicated ship as a bar mitzvah gift. Ronen continued his educational track in architecture studies at the Ort Technicom School in Givatayim. He belittled his studies and invested only in the studies in which he found great interest. Ronen the redhead, redhead as they called him, was a handsome boy, a classy darling and from an early age he had a girlfriend. He was a good athlete, strong and tall of his own age, who practiced running and football. During his free time he wrote poems and short stories, listened to quiet music and was a member of the Scout movement in his city. Despite the significant age gap between him and his sister Yafit and his brother Eli, and after his father’s death, Ronen saw himself as responsible for them and their relationship was close and warm. According to his sister Yafit, Ronen was a quiet and serious fellow, whom the physical parties did not interest. He was not interested in gossip, did not like the impression and hypocrisy of man. He was a modest, genuine man, a good man, who helped a lot. His outstanding qualities were his great sensitivity, his wisdom and initiative, the seriousness and spirituality that characterized him. Ronen looked for the feeling and hidden in life and write about it in his poems. He was an amateur of nature and nature, and he took his sister and brother with him for his travels and fascinating journeys throughout the country. Because he was deaf, he did not have to enlist in the IDF, but Ronen asked to volunteer and in late June 1989 he was drafted into the IDF. Ronen refused to serve close to the house, even though he was offered an interesting role as he sketched in Tel Aviv. He began his service as a quartermaster in the General Staff at a detention facility for terrorists near Gaza. A year later, he moved to Eilat and from there was assigned to serve in the Ordnance Corps as a quartermaster in the Beit El military base. His commanders admired him as a diligent soldier with a personal initiative and high motivation who invested in his work. On February 20, 1992, Ronen fell during his service and was laid to rest at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery. He was twenty-two years old when he fell. Survived by his mother, brother, and sister, Yafit. In his letter of condolence to the family, the unit commander wrote: “… Ronen served for a year and a half in our unit as a quartermaster, and he fulfilled his duties with dedication and diligence, and he aspired to see his work with us as part of the career service. “. Ronen left behind a collection of poems and short stories. In his poem “Children’s Prayer,” he wrote: “Children’s prayer / fluttering / gentleness that is not from life / children’s prayer / marrying El Al / like a prayer of lamentation / Of children / to the omnipotent God / the prayer of children / who departs from the naive map / precedes the rest of the prayers / conquers the rest of the prayers / defeats the obstacles / breaks the gates / is served before God / as a true guide / In the Lev of trust / prayer of children / God Almighty “
