Peretz, Armond

Son of Sa’ada and Abraham, was born in 1945 in Morocco. At age 15, Armond immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1960, and the family settled in Nes Tziona. Armond completed six years of schooling in an elementary school in Morocco. In Israel he worked in odd jobs, including a carpenter in a packing factory. In March 1965 he was drafted into the Armored Corps, where Armond participated in the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, and the Peace for Galilee War. On August 10, 1983, he served with his unit at the outskirts of Beirut, when an artillery battle broke out between Druze and Christian forces. A barrage of Katyusha rockets fell on the division headquarters, where Armond served. Several soldiers were wounded, among them Armond. He died of his wounds at the age of 38. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Nes Ziona. Armond left behind a mother, a sister and three brothers. Defense Minister Moshe Arens wrote in a letter of condolence to his family: “Private Armond gave his life for his homeland, he fell in Jammhur in Beirut, he was a devoted and efficient soldier and a model member.” The commander of his unit wrote to his family: “Armand went with the rest of the battalion’s soldiers to fight the peace of the Galilee under harsh conditions, in a cruel struggle, in order to remove an enemy from the citizens of Israel in the north of the country. Served as a model for his comrades in his ability to carry out all the tasks assigned to him, both in reserve duty and in the Peace for the Galilee, and the soldiers would remember him as a soldier, for example,