Ben Simcha and Diner. He was born on May 14, 1961 in Tiberias. Ronen was a man of many talents, blessed with talents in many different fields, who loved to learn and deepen and loved to give and give from the knowledge he acquired and impart it to others. During his lifetime, Ronen acquired many degrees: a navigator, a physicist, an attorney and a teacher, but the work was the most important of all – not for the title, but for the very act and for the soul – as Ronen himself defined it. Ronen spent his childhood and youth in the city where he was born, where he studied at the Ehrlich Elementary School and continued at the Amal High School in the Electronics Department. Was a member of the Scouts movement, and in November 1979 Ronen enlisted in the IDF and volunteered for an aviation course. He completed his course in 1981 as a helicopter navigator, and served three years in a squadron of herons. During the Lebanon War he participated in dozens of evacuations and rescues of fighters from the front. In 1984 Ronen moved to the Yasur squadron and advanced to senior navigator position. As part of his service in the Yasur Squadron, Ronen participated in many operations. Ronen’s friend for a number of service, Ronon was a professional navigator and the most comfortable and secure staff. When Ronen was discharged from military service in 1986, he began his studies in which he was not satisfied. He began at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied mathematics and physics for a bachelor’s degree. Alongside his studies, he benefited from his hiking hobby and guided trips on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Nature. After completing his bachelor’s degree, Ronen continued his master’s degree in physics and this time at Ben Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. Ronen, who went on to many fields of interest, continued his studies in law and completed his internship. Shortly after they fell, he was supposed to take the bar exam. Ronen also wrote poetry, was a theater buff and planned to continue and expand his horizons in literature and history. Together with all his activities and his work as a teacher at the Institute for Science Education in Tel Aviv, Ronen took care of his reserve service, and once a week he set out to perform it with precision and professionalism. In the past two years, Ronen has taught physics at the Gifted High School in Ashdod. “He had a great body with a lot of soul and he saw education as a value, he could work close to his place of residence, but he came to us and fell in love with us and we were in it. , And was supposed to start teaching the guidance class as well. ” Ronen’s students say that he had a shy smile and despite his high education and civilian and military skills, he was modest and said little about himself: “His lessons were fun, he had his own timetable. When we said that something was difficult, he would raise his hand, in his special way, and say “everything is easy” – and so it was. On the evening of the 28th of Shvat 577 (February 4, 1997), the helicopter disaster occurred. Two Yasur helicopters collided over Moshav Shear Yashuv and the seventy-three fighters, who made their way to operational activity in Lebanon, were killed, including Ronen, who did his reserve service every week. He was thirty-five years old when he fell. He was buried in the military cemetery in Tiberias. Ronen left behind his parents, three brothers – Meir, Rama and Yoram, and his girlfriend Tali. Ronen’s family commemorated him at a free legal counseling center at Bar-Ilan University and an annual scholarship given to a student by lawTel Aviv University. A street adjacent to Ronen’s family home in Tiberias is named after him, “Ronen Road”. At the Erlich School, in the school communication program, a radio studio named Ronen “Ronenpon” was opened. In addition to astonished family members and friends, Ronen left behind his students, who loved him passionately and they returned his love. Ronen’s students tell of his uniqueness: when he arrived at the beginning of the year and promised his students that at the end of the year they would love physics, the students accepted his promise with suspicion that over time they were proven wrong. Afterward, Ronen asked his students what their favorite place was, and they answered “the seashore”. Indeed, Ronen took them to the beach, where they measured together the radius of the earth. This is how Ronen knew how to move than he loved others.
