Netter, Ben-Zion (“Benny”)
The only son of Saul and Chava. He was born on January 23, 1948 in Deganya Aleph, in the midst of the War of Independence and during the battles for the group. When son of-Zion was three months old, his father Saul fell in the Syrian attack on Degania. When he reached school age, he attended elementary school there. He continued his studies in an agricultural school in Hadera and, prior to his military service, chose to train himself as a mechanical engineering operator who taught at the “Neurim” school for one year. In November 1966 he enlisted in the IDF and was assigned to the Engineering Corps, shortly after completing the basic training period, the Six Day War broke out and son of-Zion served in the Sinai as a platoon operator, in the rescue of vehicles, To take part in the first breakthrough to the IDF outpost on Mount Hermon. The fact that this “Genesis” was made in this breakthrough excited son of-Zion very much and he regarded it as the culmination of his military service. He is still in his compulsory service as an efficient and dedicated soldier and has embarked on retaliatory action against the Jordanian sabotage bases. He went to work on a tractor and was hit by a shell while working in the area of the Abdullah Bridge. This was during the construction of a bridge beyond the IDF forces across the Jordan, which was known as Operation Karameh, the town west of the Jordan, from which the enemy saboteurs were deployed to Israeli territory, which took place on the 21st of Adar 5728. 1968), was born and raised next to him, and was brought to rest in Kibbutz Degania A. His family, under the guidance of the Nature Reserves Authority, erected a landscape on the slopes of the Hermon as a modest landmark in memory of son of-Zion. And not the Abdullah Bridge – the place where he fell) stems from Son of-Zion’s special attitude toward the work in which he engaged in great devotion . A pamphlet called “My Son” – about him and his memory – was published after he fell.
