Klein, Gershon (Gary)

Son of Braindel and Menachem was born in Moshav Shafir in the Judean Lowlands on June 6, 1959. He learned in a hesder yeshiva in Kiryat Arba. In September 1978, Gershon enlisted in the army and was promoted to the rank of corporal. On the night of 17 Iyar, 2 May 1980, when he returned from the evening prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs near Beit Hadassah in Hebron, Gershon was caught in a terrorist ambush and was killed at the age of 21. Gershon was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul in Tel Aviv and left behind his parents and two brothers.