Ronen, Yaakov (“Jackie”)

Son of Moshe and Shoshana. He was born on July 2, 1937 in Tel Aviv. After graduating from the Shahar School, he attended the Municipal High School and completed high school at Balfour School’s evening classes. As a young boy, the yearning for education stuck to him, and he wanted to continue his studies. After graduating from high school, his blessed talents came and helped him to finish his studies at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa as a mechanical engineer. During this period he was able to be loved by all those around him for his decency, personal integrity and peace of mind. He never lost his temper by giving himself up to the job. He was very willing and willing to contribute to his colleagues – at work from his many ideas and resourcefulness. Photography was one of his hobbies and even the development of the photographs. Jacob was endowed with a sense of life and intelligence and had great emotional satisfaction from his work. The furniture of his house was Yaffa and decorated and made with his own hands. He would love to make toys for his son. In August 1955, he was drafted into the IDF and the following year, at the outbreak of the Sinai War, he took part in it, eventually reaching the rank of Major in the career army, and the uniformed army uniforms gave his appearance a respectful and admirable dignity. His role. In his last position before the Six-Day War, he commanded the artillery division at the Armored Corps School. After nine years of service in the regular army, the war broke out, and on the first day of its battles, on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he marched at the head of his subordinates with the fire coming from the top of the tank turret. In an effort to lead them to the assault, he exposed himself to enemy fire and thus died. This was in a battle north of the Um-Sheikhan (Oakland) in Sinai. He left a wife and a child. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.