Halfon, Sharon
Daughter of Shlomit and David. She was born in Beer-Sheva on February 22, 1974 at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. She studied at the elementary and secondary schools in Jerusalem and at the Tomer Rachel elementary school in Ma’aleh Adumim. Afterward, she continued her studies at the Dekel Vilnai junior high school in Ma’aleh Adumim. She completed her high school studies at Ort Neviim in architecture. Sharon excelled in a spiritual strength based on inner integrity, self-knowledge, intelligence, and developed social-artistic sensitivity. Its interior was complex and multifaceted, creating a rich inner world full of aspirations, wishes and thoughts. Her personality radiated joy, love and friendship around her. There was a strong peasant who lived in the moments of peace. In her short life, she settled for the least and relied on herself to navigate through her in modesty and modesty. Her art talent was expressed in paintings, poems and literature. Sharon was recruited to the IDF as a female soldier in the middle of August 1992. During her basic training she left a sympathetic impression among her commanders, and they noted it in her personal file. “Sharon was well integrated into the unit and aspired to take a officers’ course, which was approved for her shortly after her death, and her life’s dream was to serve in an operational field unit on a command line. In the course of her duties and was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. She left behind her parents, brother – Guy, and two sisters – Keren and Ortal. In a letter of condolences to the family, the unit commander wrote: “Sharon as a soldier and a man, in her behavior, her customs and manner symbolizes and will continue to symbolize the best and most beautiful of life. Shortly after her fall, Sharon found a song that moved her, “a protected flower.” She copied part of it, hung it at its base and at home, and gave copies to its members. “I wanted to pick a little flower, and my mother said to me, ‘This is forbidden, it’s protected!’ And the whole world has rules / not to pick protected flowers. Or maybe I’m just a little girl who does not know and does not understand. But I think it’s pretty strange that flowers are forbidden and soldiers are allowed!”
