Levi, Pinchas (Fini)
Ben sang and succeeded. Was born in Jerusalem on August 19, 1953. Pinhas, the second son of a family of five, studied at the Katznelson Elementary School in Jerusalem and completed his high school education at the Boyar School. Pini stood out as a talented and industrious boy. During his high school years he was active in the Gadna-Air Brigade and was drafted into the IDF in June 1972 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, where he did most of his regular military service and reserve duty. During his service he rose to the rank of First Sergeant and took part in the Yom Kippur War together with his older brother Mickey YLBA, later a senior lieutenant colonel and commander in the Jerusalem Border Police, and today the deputy commander of the Jerusalem district of the Israel Police. In the War of Attrition, Pini served in the Syrian sector and took part in the bloody battles in which several of his comrades fell. During his two years of service he served as an instructor at the ORT school in the capital, and after completing his compulsory service he began to study accounting at the Hebrew University’s School of Management and was able to fulfill his mission despite the difficult conditions and the many occupations he was involved in. At the Israel Museum and at Barzilai’s accountancy firm, and was later accepted to work at the Bank of Jerusalem, where he reached the rank of deputy bank accountant, and in 1975 he married his girlfriend Shoshana, and in 1977 his eldest son Roy was born. Pini joined the cooperative community that established the new Givon He was a member of the Executive Committee and a member of the Audit Committee, and was prominent in his wisdom, honesty, and pursuit of justice, and was a devoted man, loyal to his parents and loved by all his friends and acquaintances. He knew how to be happy and traveled extensively in Israel, despite his strong views, he was able to put a wedge between political polemics and friendship, and his colleague at the bank, Hassan Radwan, with whom he argued a lot, testified: Bar-Agluta endless arguments and debates. But at the end, always, always – but we always broke up as friends. “On the eve of Pesach 5709, Shoshi and Pini celebrated their firstborn Roi, and only a month later his family lost his younger brother, Ronen, aged twenty-five in a car accident in the United States. Six months later, on the 13th of Cheshvan 5751 (13 November 1990), he fell in combat, serving in the reserve unit in the Jordan Valley. A terrorist infiltrated from the rear of the outpost and opened fire at close range. Pini was shot and died of his wounds. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by a wife, two sons, two brothers – Michael and two sisters – Varda and Yifat. In a letter of condolences to the family, Defense Minister Moshe Arens wrote: “First Sergeant Pinchas Levy gave his life to his homeland … He was determined and determined, and he contributed to the idea of establishing a new settlement, His mission was sacred, and we were deeply rooted in our hearts. ” In his settlement a public park was named after him, a “Finnish garden” and a synagogue. The Jewish student organization in Rome planted a tree in his memory and his name was immortalized in the paratroopers’ monument. At Degania Street in Beit Hakerem, where his parents live, a memorial was erected for the brothers.
