Kroni, Shalom (“Avi”)

Was born in Yemen in 1947. When he was two years old, he was orphaned from his father, and when his family immigrated to Israel in 1949, his mother was forced to work to support the family and began studying at the elementary school in Kiryat Ono. And was unable to deal with him, was sent to a boarding school in Jerusalem, where he worked as a mechanic for scooters and was also employed in carpentry, and later studied at the Torah v’Avodah institute, where he studied and worked at the same time. In 1966, after completing basic training, he underwent a technical warehouse course and was assigned to an engineering corps. In his unit they marked him as a good soldier, devoted and responsible. His commanders and fellow soldiers loved him and admired him for his honesty and decency. During his service he participated in the Six-Day War. After he was discharged from regular service in April 1968, he began his career in the army in 1969. In 1970 he was discharged from the army and a year later he married a devoted and loving husband, and in 1973 he began working at Bar- Where he worked until the day of his fall, Shalom was sometimes called for periods of reserve service and always fulfilled his duties loyally, he did not try to evade his duty as a citizen of the state and even participated in the Yom Kippur War on 28.8.1788 He was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind a wife, mother and two sisters “In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote:” Shalom was the image of a devoted and loyal soldier with a professional ability and a rare desire to be just fine. Hello, we had a good friend. “His memory was commemorated in several places: his mother donated a new Torah scroll to a synagogue in Kiryat Ono, and his sister – at the initiative of her husband – and together with his mother established a synagogue in Gan Yavne, The “Ohel Shalom” synagogue, and his wife established a Torah library in the Netzach Yisrael synagogue in Ramat Gan and donated religious books to the Torah and Shalom yeshiva.