Hanoch, Chaim

Ben Israela and Michael. He was born on February 27, 1972 in Jerusalem. When he was about seven years old, his family moved to Lod and then to Ofakim and Haim attended the Abir Ya’akov elementary school in Ofakim and the Chazon Yehezkel yeshiva in Moshav Komemiyot. He graduated from high school in Ofakim. From the 11th grade, Haim joined a project that combines talented students from all over the country and the development towns themselves, and is designed to improve the achievements of the townspeople in their studies. Through this framework he gained recognition of a new and different society. And participated in extensive social activities. Among his hobbies – movies, music, airplanes and helicopters – his favorite pastime was traveling around the country. He was enthusiastic and fell in love with the landscapes of the country, and even gave expression to this passage, which he later wrote in the army: “When I am alone in the fence, I think of you, do you want me to kill you? After completing his studies, Haim joined the Kibbutz Rishit, an urban kibbutz whose members set out to form a conceptual group that would assimilate to Golani as a division and aspire to realize values ​​such as the unity of the people, love of the land and its recognition during military service, and to instill these values ​​in the company, High. In November 1990 Haim was recruited into the Golani Brigade. After undergoing basic training in the wake of the Gulf War and the fall of the Scuds in Israel, he went on to advanced training at the Commanders’ School, followed by the company to the Marjayoun line in Lebanon. He was in a state of conflict, and kept the humor even during difficult times, and gave a hand to the friends, and the sly smile was almost his trademark: On the 20th of March 1992, he fell in battle, returning from an observation post in the eastern sector of the security zone in southern Lebanon The APC in which he was traveling and in the explosion was injured and killed. He was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in Ofakim. Survived by his parents and 10 brothers and sisters – Ben-Zion, Rosaleen, Avraham, Rahamim, Yehezkel, Margalit, Ilana, Aliza, Sigalit and Gil. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, Defense Minister Moshe Arens wrote: “… Haim was an excellent soldier with command and leadership skills. He was one of the most prominent soldiers in the company and did everything that was done to him without fault.” His comrades published a booklet that reflects his character from their letters and memoirs and from his own writings, and his family participated in the establishment of a library in his memory at the Sephardic Heritage Center near the religious school in Ofakim where he studied.