Hershinson, Amir
Ben Miriam and Aaron. Born on 4 March 1976 in Jerusalem to a family of five, Amir studied at the Yad Hamoreh Elementary School in Jerusalem and at the Rene Kasan High School in Jerusalem, A basketball fan, a devoted fan of the Hapoel Jerusalem team Amir enlisted in the IDF in November 1994 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade. During the basic training period, which he did not have time to complete, his commanders were impressed by his high motivation, his serious approach to training and the dedication with which he performed every task and task assigned to him. He had a witty humor, loved by his friends in the unit, always the first to volunteer, to help and to bear the burden. Amir fell in the course of his duty on 21 January 1995, when two explosive devices exploded, three minutes apart, carrying suicide bombers at the Beit Lid junction. Immediately after the first explosion he rushed to help the wounded and was injured in the second explosion. In that attack, twenty-one additional soldiers and one civilian were killed. He was nineteen when he fell. Amir left parents, three sisters – Tami, Liat and Hadas, and another – Elad. Amir was promoted to the rank of corporal after his death, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, and his family writes: “We hear you dribbling on Friday, as we go up the stairs to the house. We miss the embarrassed smile and the witty humor that made us laugh to tears, not the kind we know now. Amit’s father wrote to you: ‘Amir, you, but not arrogant,’ and we know how much the Hashem is right for you and how much you succeeded in filling it. “Lt. Col. Eran Duvdevani, commander of the unit, wrote to the family: Amir was excellent in his department and was about to leave for a combat paramedics course, and at the event himself felt that Amir was assisting the injured in the first explosion and was himself injured in the second explosion. ” Students of the “Epshtin” Jewish school in Atlanta, United States, planted a tree in the “Children’s Forest” in memory of Amir and the other victims of the disaster. On January 16, 2003, the OC Central Command granted a personal citation to Corporal Amir Hershzon for his “self-sacrifice, the realization of the value of evil, self-endangerment, courage, resourcefulness and exemplaryness.”
