Janet and Jamil’s youngest child. Iris was born in Haifa on October 31, 1959 to parents who had immigrated a few years earlier from Syria. A fifth child to her parents, after Avraham, Yitzhak, Haviv and Fanny. As the youngest of the family, Iris was a spoiled child by everyone, and very attached to her parents. She was full of joie de vivre, which she radiated on everyone. Iris was involved with her mother, who was an expert cook, and so at a very young age she learned to cook and excelled in the field, as her brother Yitzhak says: “Mother cooked a lot and had the best food in the world. Iris studied in Haifa, first at the “Hagefen – Chaya Ziv” elementary school, and from there she continued to Ironi Aleph High School. She was a good student and graduated high school. In the afternoon Iris was sent to a ballet class, following her sister Fanny, and excelled in dancing. When Iris was fourteen, her brother Avraham was killed in a car accident, and a month later, her mother died of grief. The tragedy affected the whole family, especially Iris, whose joy of life faded away. Her sister Fanny, who was seven years older than Iris, had been her close friend all her life. It attests to the extent to which Iris has been closed to herself since the mother’s death, and how the army changed her for the better and helped her to open up again. Iris joined the IDF on February 26, 1978. She served as a coordinator in Rafidim in Sinai, and was one of the last to depart from Rafidim in January 1980, after being evacuated following the peace agreement with Egypt. After leaving Sinai, Iris was released from the IDF, but a few months later, in July 1980, she returned to the army for permanent army service. She moved to Northern Command, first in Nazareth and then in Safed. For some time she served as a coordinator and later, when she proved her skills, became commander of the Northern Command Command, which commanded dozens of soldiers. All of Iris’s acquaintances, as well as her family, testify that she loved to talk on the phone with everyone, so that her job at the switchboard suited her very much. In 1987 Iris met David Ohayon at her friends’ home. The couple became a couple, and a year later, on March 23, 1988, they were married in a hall in the Palm Beach Hotel in Acre. The family says that Iris always stood out in a personal style, and her wedding was designed according to her special taste and according to her exact requirements. After the wedding, the couple lived in Haifa with Iris’s father, so that Iris could continue to look after the father’s needs. Hinanit was born in early 1989, and then Iris moved to Haifa. “After we were born, we tried to transfer Iris to the Haifa city officer, but when there was no standard, Duncan was found in the Haifa recruiting center, and that’s where she was transferred.” Iris’s second daughter, Shaked, was born at the end of 1994, in a complicated birth that after quite a few moments of anxiety ended peacefully. Iris was a daughter, a woman and an exemplary mother, dedicated to her family, loving and indulging. All her acquaintances note her kindness and willingness to help in any way. Her sister Fanny says: “There is no such mother, she raised the girls, ran the house, and she never forgot her father. The husband wrote: “Iris was an excellent cook, her food had a unique taste, and to this day the girls are asking me to prepare food for them that their mother would cook.” Iris sent her daughters to the best kindergartens and schools, dressed them in fine clothes, and they always looked their best. During her free time, Iris liked to read books and was very interested in current events. She liked to collect antique objects, which combined with her unique taste in the home decor. From 1995 to 2000, Iris served as an individual and personnel officerIn the recruitment office in Haifa, and from 2000 to 2003 there were three in the same place. Batya, her friend and colleague, testified that Iris was always sensitive and attentive to everything, smiling with all the people she needed, whether officers or boys for recruitment. She was admired and loved by all the servants in the conscription office. During her service, Iris was promoted to the rank of senior sergeant. Shuli, who served as a soldier under Iris’s command, wrote to her on the day she was released from the army: “Iris, you are really the biggest commander I know. I wanted to thank you for everything we went through together – that was great! I think you’re a lovely woman, and I say a woman because for me you were far beyond headquarters-you were a friend to me, even when he needed a mother. When I think back, from the day I arrived at the office until the last day of my service, I just have a smile on my lips and I feel great satisfaction – and a great part of all these feelings is because of you. You just do not know how much I appreciate you, and I know I was very lucky that you were my commander … “Shira, also a soldier who served under Iris, wrote:” … I wanted you to know that I think you are a wonderful person, A little I could always turn to in everything. I told you already that a commander should be attentive and tough when necessary. I saw your less tough side, but I know you meet all the criteria. “In the middle of 2001, when Iris and her husband were in a hotel, Iris noticed a new spot on her leg, and she was always protected from the sun’s rays. On October 12, 2001, Iris was informed that she was suffering from melanoma, a skin cancer, that the couple turned to the best doctors and Iris began to undergo radiation therapy, while at the same time she kept in contact with the recruitment office and ensured that the work was going on as usual, After the hospitalization, Iris’s condition improved, she returned home and for a while managed to But in April 2003, her condition worsened, a few days before Pesach, she was hospitalized and on the day of the holiday she died, and Iris fell while performing her duties on April 17, 2003. She was forty-three years old She was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, where she left a husband and two daughters, a father, two brothers and a sister, and in April 2009 they produced a memorial booklet for Iris, In which the story of her life is brought in the words and pictures. In the concluding remarks, the editors of the booklet write: “Tov Shem Shemashan Tov,” this sentence is intended to describe the importance of a character who expresses values, expresses the behavior and behavior of the ultimate human being. Her personality, modesty through her actions will serve as an example for her family, her acquaintances, and the Israel Defense Forces. “
