Kol-Kalori, Benjamin-Ze’ev

Son of Shmuel and Miriam. He was born on August 4, 1945 in Haifa. He completed his elementary studies at the Remez school there. Was an alert child who loved to play with the neighborhood children and to make their time laugh and sing and so they all loved him. His voice was clear and apart from singing he could imitate the birds’ horns, the death of pigeons, and even the language of animals and birds, and this drew all the children to him, except that he had a special charm. In elementary school he began to rise and stand out in his talents. He was easy-to-grasp, easily grasped the curriculum, and what he particularly noted was that Benjamin Ze’ev liked to share with his friends the bench in the knowledge he had acquired and would have lectured his friends quietly and discreetly. At an early age, he joined the youth movement, the “united youth movement” – and spent his free time dividing between homework and movement. Together with his friends, he toured the entire country, extending and expanding, and excelled in discovering new landscapes, which he would describe in his notes. There was one more characteristic that marked him in particular, and he was loving others and willing to help everyone without any compensation and not to receive a reward. When he grew up and became a physically fit young man, he also excelled in various sports. After graduating from elementary school, he continued to study at the “Semet” high school in the electronics field, but was able to prepare his lessons in the late hours of the night, He often sat reading all the books of history and Hebrew history in particular, and he had a great ability to concentrate, always striving to combine the theoretical knowledge with the action. In October 1963 he was drafted into the IDF. He enlisted in the Nahal Brigade and spent some time in Kfar Ruppin and then belonged to Kibbutz Haon, with whom he had strong ties and occasionally visited the kibbutz, but because he was a professional, the navy demanded that he work in his laboratory in electronics. (Benyamin Zeev planned many plans for the future, and among other things he decided to continue his studies and reach the degree of Electronics Engineer.) When he completed his compulsory service, he decided to join the career army for two years. In the navy for a limited time, he arrived in England and treated the submarine “Dakar” as an electronics technician, although he wrote in many letters His family from England, full of descriptions of landscapes and different stories of experience, including his mind and spirit, as well as descriptions of the character of the average Englishman, awaited his family impatiently, but when the submarine “Dakar” returned to the port, on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, With the connection and again was not renewed This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968) The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of the death of Benjamin Ze’ev, in the course of carrying out his duties together with the rest, is the 29th of Tevet 5728 (30.1.1968) Since Binyamin Ze’ev was among the missing members of the team, a memorial monument was placed inside him in the memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The commander of the navy noted him as a brilliant and excellent electronics technician, devoted to his job and his work. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.