Maimon, Tova

Daughter of Mazal and Zion. She was born on May 22, 1970 in Or Yehuda and studied at the Amram Gaon elementary school in the town. She completed her high school studies at the Perkhoff high school in the nursing track, and hoped to complete them after the army. She was a lively, lively girl who simply symbolized life. She loved to laugh and to spend time, knew how to give and was always surrounded by loving friends and family. Her name was “Toby” and it was. Adolescence was an age of apprehension, confusion, confusion, fear of responsibility and routine in adulthood, and she found a convenient place to relieve her fears about her tendency to literature, reading books of various kinds, writing poems and diaries. Painting and photography were also ways to express her sensitivity to nature, beauty and art. In October 1988 she was drafted into the IDF and after her basic training she successfully completed a military policewomen course and was stationed at the Schneller base in Jerusalem, and she did her best, despite the difficulty of arresting soldiers, recording reports and behaving harshly. She had moments of intense conflict between her duty to the job and her tendency to be forgiving and soft. On Tuesday, July 6, 1989, when she returned to the base after a week’s vacation, while a bus was traveling to Jerusalem, a terrorist attacked the bus and dragged it into an canyon, (19.7.1989), She was killed. Laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon; leaving her parents, two sisters, Lily and Orly and two brothers, Gabi and Amos, wrote in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Tova was a soldier Good, caring for everyone, pleasant, disciplined and quiet, and did her best. “Her family and friends published a booklet in her memory, Tova’s cheerful and loving life.