Malka, Ronen-Victor

Son of Raymond and Armand. He was born on September 28, 1966 in Migdal Ha’Emek. He studied at the Giora Yoseftal Elementary School in Migdal Ha’emek. Afterward, he graduated from the Rogozin High School. When he was seven years old, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, Ronen was wounded in the head and leg by fragments of a Syrian missile that hit Migdal Ha’Emek. Despite his injury, his spirit was not broken, nor did he have any medical or mental disability other than a small scar in his head, which always reminded him of what he had experienced on Yom Kippur. The principal of the high school says: “At school, Ronen was known to all as a joyous boy with a sense of humor, who relates to his friends and teachers with a constant smile, and sometimes is involved in pranks, I remember the pleasant atmosphere around him. On him, and therefore he enlisted in many social tasks. ” Ronen was very fond of his friends, as his teacher remembers: “He was always standing in the middle and around him the children of the class laugh at his stories.” He was a member of the student council of his school, involved and independent. Ronen was a sports fan and played handball in Hapoel Haemek. He loved fishing, shooting and driving, and he had a collection of special stamps. He loved helping others. He always volunteered to help his family at home and in the workplace, and even to the neighbors and his friends. Ronen was drafted into the IDF in early February 1985, and again showed his caring and volunteering, but he did not want to be a combat soldier, and he joined the Golani Brigade. His devotion to and love for the IDF and the Golani Brigade penetrated the house and every corner he came to. On the 28th of Adar I 5726 (February 26, 1986), in the area of ​​Mar Yamin in southern Lebanon, north of Zarit, Ronen was killed in a battle against terrorists and was brought to eternal rest in the military section of the cemetery in Migdal Haemek. Parents and two sisters – Iris and Efrat – In a letter of condolences to the family, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote: “Please allow me to participate in your mourning from the late Ronen Malka, who gave his life for his homeland. He fell in the area of ​​Mr. Yamin in southern Lebanon in an exchange of fire with a terrorist squad. Ronen was a soldier in the infantry and was hit by a missile at Migdal HaEmek, but he volunteered for Golani, served as a sniper and stood out in his unit as a soldier, a fighter and a leader.Ronen was loved by everyone he knew. “His commander wrote:” The late Ronen was loved by all of us, he was a model soldier, very disciplined and professional, he was a sniper in his department and he was an excellent professional who loved his friends and his unit and was loved by them. In his department and death he hit us all in shock and it is hard for us to absorb the terrible loss. “His parents donated a Torah scroll to the Or HaEmek Synagogue in Migdal HaEmek, and his friends and educators published a booklet containing the words of friends about his image, and they also helped to run a lecture program in his memory, in the evening Chanukah every year on the subject of Israel’s heroism in the high school where he studied