Lenchner, Benjamin (“Binny”)

Son of Yehuda and Tzipora. He was born in Tel Aviv on January 19, 1931. He completed his elementary studies at the “Tel Nordau” school and at the “New High School” and later studied at the Law and Economics High School, He was the manager of a branch of the Feuchtwanger Bank in Tel Aviv, where he was active in the Haganah and was recruited in April 1948 and participated in the War of Independence in the Negev Brigade. He took part in the Six-Day War and until his last moments fulfilled all the tasks entrusted to him with utmost devotion and diligence, “according to the assessment of his commanders and comrades-in-arms. On the second day of the fighting, he was 26 Iyar 5727 (6.6.1967), fell in battle in the occupation of Jenin. After taking an active part in breaking the enemy’s defensive deployment in the Jenin area, and the occupation of Jenin itself, Peretz burst forth with the most forward forces and when the force reached the police area he was hit by an enemy tank. left a wife and three children-and the youngest of them was under three. He is buried in the military cemetery in Haifa and after a while he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.