Hadad, Benjamin (“Benny”)

Son of Salem and Sarah. He was born in Tashkent in 1949. His parents wanted to immigrate to Israel, and when they were six months old they immigrated to Kiryat Shmona and were transferred to Moshav Shaar Efraim in the Sharon region. Where he studied at the agricultural high school in Kfar Haroeh. He was active in a social organization in his place of residence. He loved poetry and especially sports. In his father’s farm, he was devoted to farming and dreamed of settling in an agriculture similar to that of his father. He enlisted in the IDF in November 1966. He completed basic training at Golani and then moved to Sayeret, where he was known as a man of morality in the army and loved to help anyone in need. And was intended to be sent to the course of the General Staff, but for various reasons the course was postponed for him. In the Six-Day War he was a driver and was respected by his commanders. He survived the war. But he still serves in the compulsory service encountered, while moving in the course of his duty, in the ambush of the enemy around Yardena; The commander of his unit wrote to his family in a letter of condolences to her that, as a devoted and responsible soldier, he expressed his desire to return to his parents’ farm soon to help advance the agriculture, He saw his future as an agricultural farmer, and the Northern Sharon Council published a pamphlet about him and the memory of the fallen of all Israel’s systems.