Hazon, Niv

Son of Rina and Shmuel-Haim. He was born on September 6, 1968 in Kibbutz Gvat, where he spent his early years in kindergarten and elementary school. On his ninth birthday, the family moved to Kfar Ganim in Petah Tikva and Niv continued his studies at the Hadar school there. Niv was a child with an original thought, a well-developed social and political awareness and an ability to adjust to his surroundings. After completing elementary school, he continued to study at the Ahad Ha’am High School in Petach Tikvah in chemistry, and was a student with great ability to express himself and enjoy quality films, walking to the theater and listening to avant-garde music. He was drafted into a regular service in early February 1987. He was assigned to serve in the Signal Corps, and despite his health limitations stemming from the asthma illness he suffered, he insisted on his right to serve in a combat unit and served in the Nahal Brigade . Niv fell in battle on Thursday, 25.11.1987, during the “Night of the Gliders” in the Gibor camp near Kiryat Shmona and was laid to rest at the Segula Military Cemetery in Petah Tikva, followed by his parents, brother and sister Avi and Michal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Niv was an excellent soldier, with a sense of humor, punctual, and decisive. Everyone who knew him loved him. “The family commemorated him by setting up a library and study room at the Hadar school in Petah Tikva where he studied.