Peretz, Bat-Sheva

Daughter of Ruth and Abraham. Batsheva Peretz was born in Ra’anana on the 11th of Adar 5714 (February 14, 1954). She grew up in Ra’anana. Bat-Sheva did her military service in the Armored Corps. After her release she began her studies in social work, and at the end she was qualified as a social worker. In 1973 Batsheva married Prosper Peretz. Later they moved to Kiryat Gat. In the years to come they had three children. In 1988, Bat-Sheva enlisted in the Civil Guard and served as a volunteer in the Ashkelon police station and as the operator of the Civil Guard base in Kiryat Gat. Batsheva was an active and well-known woman who contributed to the community in various fields, including a project for children with low learning abilities, a neighborhood rehabilitation project, organizing community events and helping families in distress. In the area of ​​help she dealt with great modesty, and her extensive activity became known only after her death. Batsheva was a pleasant woman, smiling and pleasant, dominant, special and with inner and outer beauty. She was engaged in the art of writing, and thus gave her creative freedom. On the 9th of Tevet 5753 (9.1.1993), First Sergeant Bat-Sheva died after fighting cancer. Thirty-nine years old in the fall. She was buried in the Kiryat Gat cemetery. Survived husband and three children. The family wrote: “The disease overwhelmed her prematurely, but her warm thoughts and noble feelings, some of them in words, some of them in the Bible, were left to her loved ones. Who shared with her at the time of her mass death, who were fortunate to be close to her. “