Hassin, Aharon

Ben Tamar and Shimon. He was born on July 19, 1961, in a town in Morocco, where he died as a twin brother of a sister who died a few weeks after she was born in 1963. In 1963, at the age of two, Aharon and his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Kiryat Shmona, And completed his studies at the Matmid High School in the city. As a child, Aharon was an avid fan of television and watched its broadcasts for about six or seven hours a day. In his youth he was considered a ‘champion’ in solving crossword puzzles of various shapes and types, including cracking puzzles of thought and logic. Until the age of fourteen, he belonged to the Bnei Akiva movement, which operated in Kiryat Shmona. When he reached the age of sixteen he joined a group that operated in the neighborhood youth club in the city and served as a liaison between the children of the neighborhood and the children of kibbutzim from the region. The group’s activities included mutual visits to the kibbutzim of the north and Kiryat Shmona and joint meetings. In his youth, he earned publicity when he was the youngest driver in his city when he successfully passed the driving tests but was denied a driver’s license because he lacked a few months for the age at which the law permits the license. In August 1979, Aharon enlisted in the IDF, and after a training course at the Armaments School, he was appointed as a military maintenance officer. Aaron held a unique and rare profession and fulfilled his role faithfully and devotedly. In 1982, when his release date came, the Peace for Galilee War broke out and his service was extended by three months. At the end of the extension, his commanders asked him to sign a permanent sign and he answered them. In the summer of 1982, Aharon began his career as a equipment tester in the Shimshon Area Armaments Unit of the Northern Command, and played this role devotedly until his dying day. In the autumn of 1982 Aaron married his son Zahava. The couple established their home in Afula, where their four children were born: Eran, Marcel, Meir and Liz. Aaron stood out in his modesty; All his attention was to his family and he deprived himself of the pleasures of life that characterize his peers. During the last five years of his life, he took over the management of the community synagogue for Moroccan immigrants in Givat Hamoreh and took care of its maintenance, renovation and expansion. On the 30th of Tammuz 5759 (30.6.1999) Aharon fell in the line of duty and he was thirty-eight. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Afula. Raya, two sons and two daughters, parents, three brothers – Yossi, Nissim and Amram – and six sisters – Etti, Yochi, Bruria, Yehudit, Ahuva and Keren. His family commemorated the distribution of siddurim and holy books in synagogues in Yeruham and Afula. His widow initiated the production of a book to remember him.