Rati, Binyamin-Yaakov

Benyamin-Ya’akov (Benny), son of Sarah and Yitzhak-Yonatan, a Holocaust survivor, was born on 29.7.1950 in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1957. He studied at the Talmud Torah in Bnei Brak “Bnei Akiva” in Kfar Haroeh, in the high school yeshiva in Kfar Ganim near Petach Tikva and in “Ort” in Givatayim Binyamin was a member of the “Bnei Akiva” youth movement and was a member of the “Ezra” movement. He was very active among the national religious party and was a candidate on its behalf in the elections to the Bnei Brak municipality, and he found a need and importance in dealing with public affairs, and invested much of his energy and time in it. He was able to get used to difficult situations and everything he was entrusted to fulfilled faithfully and willingly, Benyamin was very kind, with a gentle soul, courteous and good manners. And he was not always picky, he loved the simplicity, he knew how to make do with little, and he was happy with his lot, and Benjamin was a son of Torah, with the love of Israel and love Man. He set times for study and study, he was a reader and a thief and passed before the ark on the High Holy Days. The worshipers loved his prayer and said that it would bring them to a very emotional level. Benjamin was drafted into the IDF at the end of November 1968 and volunteered for the Armored Corps, where he completed his military service in the Patton tank course and spent the War of Attrition on the banks of the Suez Canal and was awarded the “Operational Service Certificate.” “Benjamin was an excellent soldier, very responsible, fulfilled his duties to the satisfaction of his commanders and was able to carry out responsible jobs.” His entire life was loyal to his parents and family, a devoted husband to his wife, Rachel, who was a good friend of his many friends. , Orna-Yaffa, was born two weeks before the Yom Kippur War broke out, and when the Yom Kippur War broke out he was drafted and sent with his unit to the front on the 13th of Tishrei 5734 (October 9, 1973) Binyamin fell in a battle in the Hamutal compound in the central sector, and his commander told him that he had excelled in his courage and sacrifice, and according to the commander of the tank, Benjamin was no longer able to be saved and fell back into the tank, and was later declared a missing soldier, and was later buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife and daughter, parents, two brothers and a sister. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. His family donated a Sefer Torah to the Talmud Torah in memory of Binyamin, and established in his memory a charity fund.