Sharon, Aharon (“Roni”)

Son of Yosef and Yehudit. He was born on August 2, 1948 in Kiryat Tivon. When the parents moved to the Gvat group, he attended elementary school there and after graduating he attended high school. While he was among elementary school students, Roni was one of the best students in his first years of studies. On the one hand there was a sabra mischief that merged with the man of the book and seriousness. He loved to play around, laugh and rejoice, but also to build different instruments, read a lot and be interested in electricity. While he was in seventh grade, Ronny began to model airplanes, while his brother Amos (who fell four years before the Six-Day War) helped him. Ronny also liked to travel the country and take pictures of nature and develop his photographs. He was also sent to a course for the knowledge of the country in Sde Boker on behalf of his school. While he was a student, he excelled in his work in the Shlachin branch. His childhood friend said that he would have been free to play with him on an electric train and when he was free he would have engaged in an argument with him and these conversations were serious, about the world problems of America and Russia, Israel and Arabia, and all his views and thoughts were balanced. Was a lively and inquisitive youth, indifferent to any phenomenon, whether aesthetic, personal or social. He loved music and lived in it. From the beginning he objected to a suggestion that he would play on some instrument, when his musical talents were discovered – perhaps because he did not want to play – and to play as his brother Amos, whom he admired. In general, Aharon was very multi-colored and what he particularly liked was the constant ferment, the search for what was not yet found, and the lack of acceptance of the truth of others. He wanted to examine and test and taste everything himself. In November 1966 he was drafted into the IDF, and Roni, like his brother, was devoted to fulfilling his duty to the homeland, but as his brother he dreamed of flying – but only Amos was a pilot and Aharon abandoned the idea of ​​being a pilot. Although he did not aspire to a military career and wanted to do only what he had to do in the service, he did go to an officers’ course and finished with great honors – and all his service was passed – until he was wounded by shrapnel from an operational shell in the patrol unit As an active soldier and a combat soldier – and on the way to the hospital in Forte died of his wounds, on Tuesday, 25 March 1968, in Gizer The Jordan Valley opposite Ashdot Yaakov. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Gvat. The commander of the unit wrote to his family in a letter of condolences, among other things: “Ronny fell in the course of an operational operation that only a few ultra-vets do, and on his young shoulders, as the shoulders of his comrades in the unit, tasks have not yet been given … In Roni, he joined the unit in November 1966, where he served continuously until he reached the rank of officer, and returned to command Both his old and young friends, and he passed many tests during his service Measurement of the tour stands at attention on the grave. ” His rank was raised on the day they fell. In “Thirty”, Gvat published a booklet in his memory entitled “Roni Sharon”.