Ben Jacqueline and me. He was born in Nahariya on February 7, 1976. He studied at the Katznelson Elementary School and at Amal High School in Nahariya, and he loved the freedom, the sea and the fun with His friends and especially his girlfriend for three years, Ilana Eitan was an avid sports fan, actively engaged in soccer, a game in which he excelled in his childhood, and was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Beitar Nahariya team. His friends said he was “a loyal friend, willing to help at all times and to listen attentively, a wild and smiling nature lover.” Eitan enlisted in the IDF in late November 1994. He underwent basic training at the Sanur base in Nablus, and soon joined the paratroopers’ family, Eitan loved the army, never complained, and treated difficulties with humor as a social experience. Beit Yad, on January 22, 1995. Twenty-one soldiers and a civilian were killed, and Eitan was laid to rest in the cemetery in Nahariya and was promoted to corporal after his death. Survived by his parents, brother, two sisters and a friend. In a letter of consolation to the family, the unit’s commander, Lt. Col. Eran Duvdevani, wrote: “Eitan volunteered for the paratroopers in the November 1994 division and served as a combat soldier in the company’s regiment, during which Eitan stood out as an devoted and devoted soldier who was willing to help at any time. His very volunteering for the paratroopers, together with his beloved figure among his friends, is a product of home-based education, and we will always keep Eitan in our hearts. ” In the explosion at Beit Lid, Eitan identified his Krav Maga commander, Oded Aberlingi, among the wounded, and immediately rushed to his aid and gave him preliminary treatment. As he leaned over his wounded friend, the second explosion, the explosion that caused his death, sounded. Eitan absorbed the shrapnel and the blast, saving the life of his friend who was lying at his feet. Oded eulogized him after his death: “Eitan, as his name is, without fear came in and took care of me, and paid for it with his life … I have no words and I can never thank him for taking care of me and coming out alive because of him. At the request of his parents, Eitan was remembered for purchasing the “Elijah Chair” and a lamp for a synagogue in Nahariya. Students from the “Epshtin” Jewish school in Atlanta, United States, planted a tree in memory of Eitan, in the “Children’s Forest”, in the forests of the JNF, and a soccer team was named after him, “Eitan Nahariya.” (January 2003), the OC Central Command gave Corporal Eitan Peretz a personal citation that was given to his family, “for the insanity of the soul, the realization of the value of evil through self-risk, courage, resourcefulness and exemplaryness.”
