Peretz, Avinoam

Son of Sima and Hananiah. Avinoam was born on October 6, 1969, in Migdal Ha’Emek. He attended the Giora Yoseftal School and the Rogozin Junior High School. Avinoam excelled in his studies and was talented in many fields. “His smile, his shining eyes and his warm, outstretched hand, seemed to say: ‘Efrat, when will you come to visit?’ He was a talented artist, painting, sculpting, playing, writing, singing and dancing, and he also studied and contributed to the game. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Golani Brigade. At the end of his military service he traveled abroad. When he returned, Avinoam enlisted in the Border Police in March 1992. In March 1992 he moved to serve in the Internal Security Department as a shooting instructor, and in July 1992 he began to teach the course on internal security. Avinoam returned from a vacation at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem, near the hitchhike that killed soldiers and civilians, spotted a suspicious person armed with an M-16 rifle, and when he approached the soldier he shot him at close range and killed him. . Sergeant Avinoam was twenty-three years old when he fell. He was buried in the military section of the Migdal Ha’Emek cemetery. Survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. “Avinoam’s teacher could have been, but he chose the security services,” said Speda Efrat, Avinoam’s teacher. In the wake of his heroism, Avinoam was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Israel Police after his death. The letter says: “He sacrificed his life in order to prevent disaster and save other lives, showing courage and courage worthy of serving as a model for all serving in the Israel Police.”