Peretz, Ronen

Ronen, Ben Anat and Yehoshua Peretz, was born in 1976 in Ashkelon. Ronen joined the IDF and served in the Border Police. Upon his release he began working for an engineering company. In 2002 Ronen married Sarit. In 2006, Ronen joined the Israel Prison Service, the Nachshon Unit. On 25 Kislev, 2.12.2010, a fire broke out in the Carmel Forest, the Carmel Disaster, the largest fire of its kind in Israel’s history. A decision was made to evacuate the prisons. The bus transporting the prison personnel and prisoners caught fire. Forty-four men and women perished in the fire. Thirty-seven of them were cadets of the prison officers’ course and the course’s commanders, the bus driver, three firemen and three police officers. Ronen was thirty-four years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Ashkelon. Survived by a wife, son and daughter.