Ravid, Boaz

The eldest son of Aviva and Mordechai. Was born on the afternoon of Saturday, June 3, 1961 in Moshav Beit Oved. In 1965-1965, he visited the Israeli Kindergarten in Paris while the parents were on a mission there. Since he was in kindergarten, his talent for painting has stood out. As a child, inspired by television, he drew paintings that expressed great understanding. Over the years, Boaz became more articulate in painting, which was “the bread of his law” during elementary school, high school, and university studies. He illustrated the lecture notes as he listened. Even during leisure and relaxation, he devoted many hours to painting for his pleasure. Boaz completed eight years of elementary school in Gan Raveh in Moshav Beit Hanan. He stood out as an example student, who worked on his studies with great curiosity and love. In the regional high school surrounding Brenner, Boaz studied two broad trends – physics and Arabic, which were transferred simultaneously. Boaz was present on and off every second lesson and completed his homework alone, and even found time to play chess, practice Judo, learn graphics and help the parents’ agriculture. Boaz devoted his time to listening to lectures on Chabad-related Judaism, and Boaz joined the IDF in mid-July 1979, the day after his final matriculation exam, and chose to serve in the Intelligence Corps. He took a basic course in Arabic, which was a means of continuing his career in the corps. Underwent various courses for military advancement and when the Peace-Galilee War broke out he volunteered to serve in the Northern Command in Lebanon as a combat intelligence officer. In July 1984, after five years of service in the Israel Defense Forces, two years in Lebanon as a combat intelligence officer with the rank of captain, he was released in order to help his parents prepare himself for academic studies, He also studied at the Tel-Aviv University as a free learner and studied psychology and philosophy for a bachelor’s degree at Tel Aviv University, where he also studied graphology as a certified graphologist and saw it as a science related to psychology in unconnectedness.In his studies, Boaz volunteered to serve on the students’ God He had left a message in the unit asking him to call him for every operation and every hour of his life, and he was always invited to reserve duty in order to promote the interests of the movement. He was a loyal friend of his friends and served as a model and example of human love with endless devotion to the State of Israel. The need for national survival and preservation of the heritage was a guiding light for his actions. Boaz intended to enlist in the army immediately after his first degree, for another two years of service, and in the week he fell he was supposed to summarize the final things about his enlistment. Fate wanted another and Boaz fell in battle with terrorist forces (Hezbollah) in Maydun, Lebanon on the 17 th of Iyar 5748 (February 4, 1988) and he was only twenty-seven and he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nes Tziona. He is followed by parents and three brothers – Eyal, Tomer and Ari.