Ofer, son of Tzila and Zvi, was born on December 10, 1939 in Petah Tikva. He spent his childhood in the Nachlat Ganim neighborhood of Ramat Gan, where he also attended the school for working children. During this period he was one of the best students in his class. He was interested and stood out in his studies of history and geography, his love of reading, and the extent of his knowledge. After completing his elementary studies, he continued at the ORT vocational high school in Givatayim, in the framework of mechanical frameworks. The school did not match Ofer’s tendencies and interests, so he was not pleased with his studies there. In this school he studied for three years, and did not finish. He completed his matriculation exams in the evening, working on a daily basis. During his high school years, he expanded and expanded his participation (which began many years earlier) in the life of his group in the “HaNoar HaOved” branch in the Borochov neighborhood of Givatayim. In addition to his activities as part of the group, he worked as a mentor in Ramat Gan. Ofer was drafted into the IDF in early August 1957 and volunteered with the other members of the “Tzur-Ram” group (members of Hanoar Haoved) to Nahal. As a soldier, he did not like the military framework, he did not like the military framework, he did not like the military framework, It was no accident that he did not try to raise his military rank and remained for most of his private service, but nevertheless felt a sense of duty and responsibility in relation to his military service, both during regular army service and in reserve service. He was averse to dodging and dodging military duty He graduated from the Levinsky Teachers’ Seminary in Tel Aviv and completed his certification exams for two years, and began his academic studies in Bible and Jewish history at the Tel Aviv University’s Advanced School for Teacher Education where he studied for two years and completed his studies He also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied for most of his life, and his educational work apparently began with his training as a youth. During the years of his membership in Kibbutz Tze’elim, he also served as a counselor for Hanoar Ha’oved and aimed at kibbutz life. For three years he taught and coordinated the Ramat-Chen Scouts. After completing his studies, he became a teacher at the Hillel School in Kfar Shalem. Where he worked for two years, until he moved with his family to Ashdod. In Ashdod, he spent three years at the Geulim School, and after completing his bachelor’s degree he moved to the Rogozin A Comprehensive Secondary School in Ashdod. In this school he held various educational and organizational positions and two years later was appointed deputy director. He served in this capacity until the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ofer saw in his educational work a central thing in his life. He gave her the best of his creative power. He constantly renewed and enriched his ways of work, studied and expanded his knowledge, studied, studied, reviewed himself and corrected himself, and so forth. As a teacher he was very strict and meticulous, yet possessed a sense of humor, an ability to penetrate the souls of the children, and a unique leadership ability. His complete and rich personality, his world of values, his life, his ability to express and his ability to attract and interest the students left their mark on many of his students. “It was not past that he left us, but roots,” wrote one of his students. In his private life, dirt did not stand out as a man of friends. Most of his acquaintances knew little about him. heDid not take much into account the accepted social conventions and followed the path of life he had chosen for himself. With his few friends he had strong, close and open ties of friendship. In their company he could be Simcha and Simcha. In 1963 he married his girlfriend Elisheva Cohen. Was very attached to his family, and tried to bestow and influence his spirit and rich inner world on his children. Won to make his loved ones Simcha in his company. One of his hobbies was chess. He tried to catch up with his many chess players and even organized a local chess team in Ashdod, now named after him. For his happiness, he managed to like the game with his eldest son, Uri. In the Six Day War, he fought with his battalion in Umm Kataf and the Golan Heights. After the Six-Day War, his reserve service periods increased, and his connections with the soldiers of his unit increased. At the beginning of July 1973 he officially completed his service in the Paratroopers Brigade and was about to be stationed in a unit of the Chief Education Officer on the day the Yom Kippur War broke out. When the war broke out he stabilized at the base of his previous unit without being called, and was sent to the front in the Golan Heights. On the night of the 16th of Tishrei 5740 (October 12, 1973), when he was carrying out an operational operation in Khan-Arnabeh, a mortar bomb hit the engineering half-track to which he was attached as a machine gunner. They were killed in the military section of the Ashdod cemetery and left behind a wife, three sons and two brothers, and was raised to the rank of sergeant. A booklet in his memory, in which members of the family, friends, and students were brought to his name, and many of his letters were gathered there.In the Rogozin Aleph High School in Ashdod, where he worked and served as deputy director, The section, which deals with the history of the Land of Israel in the modern era, serves the school’s students and teachers in preparing works on this subject, and helps them expand their knowledge on the subject, which was close to Ofer’s Lev.
