Wenger, Amos

Son of Slavia and Simcha, was born on the 11th of Cheshvan 5723 (November 8, 1962) in Tel Aviv. Amos attended the “Giborei Yisrael” school, continued his studies at the ninth grade high school, and studied there for three years, until the eleventh grade, completing his final year at the “Ron” School. And began his career as a paramedic, having undergone many courses and first aid courses, and when he enlisted in the IDF, he was already full of skilled and experienced paramedics. He spent most of his time volunteering. From childhood, Amos was active in the Scouts movement. After a while he moved to the Hashomer Hatzair movement in the Yad Eliahu neighborhood and joined the Nahal Harish group, and Amos had a sensitive and poetic soul, and he expressed his feelings in melancholy songs in which he was able to express his feelings. , About war and death, in one of his poems, which he wrote half a year before his death, he prophesied: I ran out of my future / something that came into my mind / whispered my death to me / In one corner of my life, / and the present is simply not alive – past, / the living body / and the acceptance of death remain. / Before Amos enlisted in sports, in order to reach the IDF in full strength. He enlisted in September 1981 and served in the Nahal paramilitary brigade, and during one of the exercises, both his legs were damaged, so that he would not keep him away from his training friends. The battle, Sivan Hospital, 9.6.1982, when his unit carried out a cleansing operation in the village of Rashadia, was hit by an enemy shell and killed, and was buried at the military cemetery in Holon 19 years later. , And a collection of poems he had written in his short life, and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon wrote in a letter of condolence to his family: “Private Amos Wenger gave his life Hugh for his homeland. He served in a paratroop battalion, was a courageous soldier, motivated and willing to succeed. He used to help others with a poetic soul. ” The mayor of Tel Aviv, Shlomo Lahat, said: “We will remember Amos Wenger, the boy, the poet, the soldier … The short life of a fallen Nahal soldier, who is only 19 years old, is full of work and stock. content. As a volunteer, Amos spent most of his free time volunteering for the Magen David Adom program. He wrote poems and was a Yaffa Land of Israel, a member of a youth movement all his life and a member of the Nahal Brigade, where he settled in Nahal Harish. He hoped that after he was discharged from the army, he would go to the kibbutz to be a farmer. In a pamphlet that was published in his memory, his friends raised his image, as well as the songs he wrote.