Ohana, Suzy
Daughter of Bat Sheva and Shlomi. She was born on 18.1.1981 in Ashkelon, a sister to Urit. A beautiful girl, whose childhood was not easy, and who went through it in the shadow of a family crisis. Susie’s parents divorced when she was six years old and she moved in with her mother to her grandmother. She began her studies at the Yeshurun State Religious Elementary School in Ashkelon and went on to the junior high school and the “Kfar Silver” high school, where she completed her studies in a theoretical track. Suzy, smiling and graceful, was kind and sympathetic to her classmates. High school years were her beautiful years. She excelled in mathematics and showed impressive writing skills in songs and letters she wrote. Her involvement in social and community life was an expression of her pleasant personality and the values she was educated about – the need to contribute and help others. She was active in the Gadna and volunteered for the Civil Guard of the Police, and Suzy had many dreams, one of which was to develop a career as a track model, thanks to her natural resources. The military system acceded to her request and Susie was assigned to serve in the Southern Command of the Home Front Command. Soon she had acclimated herself to the base, loved to help her friends, and continued to smile. “I met Susie for the first time seven months ago … I was fascinated by her personality and her sincere desire to help, help and care for her family … Susie was a wise, diligent and joyful soldier who enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces with the aim of giving, Her duty. ” In her last years, Suzy became more spiritual and recited Psalms. But her main ambitions were in the family sphere; She hoped she would succeed in making peace between her parents and therefore objected to her mother’s desire to remarry. Her yearning for her mother to give her a little brother was realized only after her death. Susie did not have time to meet her new brother, Sahar, whom she had expected. On the 13th of Sivan 5760 (13.6.2000) Susie was murdered by a friend with whom she moved to live a week earlier, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Ashkelon, leaving behind her parents and sister. To the rank of corporal, the commander of the unit where she wrote a letter to her family: “Susie’s memory will remain engraved in our hearts. We will choke the tears in our throats and find it hard to digest the dimensions of pain, sorrow and grief … We all bow our heads and salute Suzi. “
