Raz, Yinon

Ben Nurit and Zvi. He was born on November 16, 1973, in Petah Tikva. A third son of a family of four. Yinon was a dyslexic child in an opaque world. He loved a guitar and loved songs. In the seventh grade he wrote a song for a song competition on the subject of “Land of Israel” words and melody, and put it in the drawer: “I look at the light / I walk for you / You are beautiful for me / In the rains of your tears … / My country / Worth it when it is full of war. ” Yinon was a member of the “Atad” nucleus of Hanoar Haoved. In the pre-army period, the members of the core of the training farm at “Petah Shalom” lived in caravans with new immigrants – workers, counselors and mainly dreamers … To finish the training farm, Yinon wrote: “In memory of the Ford Transit, “In honor of the kibbutz and the memory of the brotherhood, in commemoration of those Sabbath days and in memory of the farm, in honor of the joint dinners, in memory of those cultural evenings and in memory of those plenaries …” At the beginning of April 1992, Yinon joined the IDF. He was a quiet, intelligent, motivated and socially qualified young man, and after a period of twelve years in Kibbutz Revivim and basic training, Yanon was sent to a combat paramedics course Bible medic. He served as a medic at the base clinic in Hahon. Yinon was pleased with his job. On January 23, 1993, Yinon fell to the military cemetery in Petach Tikvah, leaving his parents, brother-in-law Hagai and two sisters Einat and Yael in a condolence letter to the bereaved family. The commander of the base: “… your son was disciplined, orderly, a good friend and carried out every task he was assigned in the best possible manner …” His family published a booklet in his memory “If I were a butterfly,” which combines a collection of his many poems, Until the age of twenty, and they are an expression of an inner world, rich and sensitive: “In the beginning man created God / and the soul was chaos / and darkness on the face of the abyss. “And the man said, Let there be faith, and there shall be faith …”