Peretz, Zion
Son of Masouda and Aziz, was born in Morocco in 1948. At the age of four he immigrated to Israel with his family, who settled in the village of Yavne’el. He studied at Naftali Elementary School in Yavne’el and then studied for two years at the Mifne School in Tiberias, carpentry. Due to the family’s difficult economic situation, Zion went to work for the farmers of the moshava and continued his work until his enlistment in the IDF, and in 1965 Zion was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the Golani Brigade. He served in the brigade during the Six Day War, and was a regular driver of the half-track in the Golan Heights, where he was discharged from regular service with the rank of sergeant and went to work in the Jordan Valley. And was settled in Yavne’el, where he had three daughters and a son, and later moved to serve in the Air Force in Ramat David as a refueling driver, and was assigned to the position of ambulance driver and medic. His diligence, his dedication to his job, and the great responsibility he displayed in his work His service on 28.11.1981, when he was in the career army, because of complications after surgery. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Yavne’el. He was 33 when he died. His wife commemorated his name by inserting a Torah scroll into the synagogue in Yavne’el.
