Westerreich, Amitai Yonatan

Ben Pnina and David. Born on the 29th of Tevet 5772 (29.12.1971) in New York, United States, and immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of nine months. The family settled in Be’er Sheva, where he began his studies at the Rambam Religious State School, and eight years later the family moved to Petah Tikva and continued to study at the Yavneh Religious State School in Kfar Ganim. He studied for six years in the “Kfar Ganim” high school yeshiva, where Amitai Yonatan was a young man with a unique sense of sensitivity and understanding, from the close circle of friends and family to the complete strangers he encountered for the first time. His qualities and his ability to quickly grasp and analyze situations and human phenomena.Yamati Yonatan lived before his military service in the Yishuv The new religious ‘Ramat Moda’im’ and his life there were a model for his contemporaries and young people, and he continued his Torah studies at the Karnei Shomron hesder yeshiva, where he was conscripted to the IDF Rabbinate. His job took place on the 3rd of Adar 5752 (March 7, 1992) in a traffic accident on the Jerusalem-Ben Shemen road near Beit Horon and was laid to rest at the Civil Cemetery at Har Hamenuhot in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents, sister and brother. The family immortalized his memory by purchasing a curtain for the synagogue at the Kfar Ganim yeshiva and for publishing memorial books. In addition, a public park was established in Ramat Modi’in in memory of Amitai and his friend who was killed with him. The Karnei Shomron Yeshiva established a library of tapes on Torah subjects in memory of Amitai.