Sufrin, Neta
Daughter of Talia and Daniel. Born on Tuesday, 19 September 1974, in Rishon Letzion, the eldest daughter of her parents, she spent her first years of elementary school in Rishon Letzion, continued in the “Dorot” junior high school and finished high school on a cycle 49 of the Real Gymnasium in her hometown. From the sixth grade, Neta was an apprentice at Scopus, in the Shorek tribe in Rishon LeZion, and since then she has devoted most of her time, a lecturer and her skills to movement activities. In the ninth grade, she underwent a training course and became a counselor. In her 11th grade she was head of the battalion. In the twelfth grade, Neta went to Poland with a group of students and teachers from the Gymnasium, which included visits to labor and extermination camps during World War II, which had a great influence on Neta In a diary she conducted during the journey: “We began to circulate freely among the 17,000 stones, each stone symbolizing a Jewish community. There’s also the pit where people were thrown and they see so many stones! It is impossible to understand the number of people murdered there, to think that every stone in the sea of stones before us is not one person but an entire community! shocking! I went on land that was very strange to tread on because I know that it is actually saturated with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Jews … “(From the travel diary, Treblinka, July 14, 1990.) “The Scouts,” whose purpose is to participate in community life and assist in development towns and immigrant communities. The members of the nucleus are graduates of the Tzofim and 12th grade kibbutzim, who volunteer for a year of service after completing their studies, and thus postpone the beginning of their military service for a year. In the “Sagi” tribe of the Scouts movement in Dimona, where she left in September 1992 as part of a commune that included five other members: Neta was the training center for the tribe in this year, and was also active in the establishment of a 5th grade battalion in Shevat. Members of the commune aided by schools and community centers in Dimona. This year of activity caused great satisfaction, in addition to the sympathy and appreciation that it received in Dimona. In the middle of November 1993, Neta joined the IDF and served as an operations sergeant in the southern brigade in Rafah, before and after the evacuation of the Gaza Strip, where she went on to train in the “Sayarim” camp near Eilat. Before her discharge from the IDF, since the brigade was loved and close to her heart. Its commanders wrote a book that performed its function in a very good way, while showing responsibility, professionalism, initiative, leadership ability and example. Neta was popular among her commanders and friends. On April 9, 1995, Neta was killed when a car bomb exploded near her bus in the Kfar Darom area of the Gaza Strip, killing five other soldiers and a civilian, Sergeant Yuval Regev, Zvi Neravat, Corporal Itay Diner, Corporal Tal Nir and Alisa Flatow, a volunteer from the United States At the age of twenty, Neta was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion, leaving her parents, Yael and two brothers Uri and Oded. She was promoted to sergeant after her death.
