Shkolnik, Israel Ofir

The son of Hilda and Yehezkel. He was born on October 11, 1975 in moshav Kochav Michael, the third son of the seven children of the Shkolnik family, who began his studies at an elementary school in Kiryat Gat and continued at the “Karkur” school in Pardes Hannah and the ” Pardes Hanna “and completed the” Ramat Menashe Amal “high school in Ein Shemer, in the field of car electrical engineering, and he was the first place in the Israel Gymnastics Championship and was a member of the Betar youth movement and the settlement group” Gahal ” In addition to his two younger brothers, Tal and Omer, and the Shkolnik family had a special “affair” with the Nahal – the uncles, the father And the brothers, all of them served in the brigade’s combat track, and it was only natural for Israel to continue this tradition. In mid-February 1994, Israel enlisted in the IDF and began training in the Nahal Brigade. He was a quiet soldier, disciplined and orderly, smiling, happy and very sociable, who did all the tasks that were best assigned to him. His friends said he was a talented musician and singer. Israel fell during his service on 18 June 1994. Eighteen years old, he was laid to rest in the military section of the Pardes Hanna cemetery, leaving behind his parents, sister Tamar and five brothers – Eran, Ariel, Rafael, Tal And Omer, whose family commemorated him in a computer room in Yehud, in a playground named after him in Mevo Dotan, and in the evening young talents at the Samaria Community Center, held in his memory each year.