Shimoni, Jonathan (“Johnny”)

Son of Yehuda and Leah. He was born on February 20, 1933. As a child, his parents immigrated to Israel and he was with them, graduating from the Bialik elementary school, and later to the Scouts movement. He was alive and cheerful and Simcha, but at the same time he knew how to be serious, he was willing to come to the aid of every friend and friend with good advice and thereby relieve their pain when they needed a word of encouragement. To the IDF in July 1951 and later was one of the founders of the agricultural settlement on the shores of the Dead Sea – Ein Gedi. After his conscription, he fell ill and fought with the Lord of Death, but even in his difficult moments, he took his life for a day in which he would renew his labor and work, but his strength did not overcome his fate when he died on the first day of Av 5713 (13.7.1953) And was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul