Yogev, Aryeh

Ben Mordechai and Rachel. Aryeh, the third son of the family, was named after his grandfather Aryeh Ben-Zvi, a scholar of great knowledge, scholarship, and virtues who died six months earlier. Arieh was a handsome child with delicate harmony, a quiet and pleasant boy who never quarreled with a man and did not find himself in a quarrel, and his delicate soul and unique personality stood out in different faces from his childhood to his last day. “Noam Banim” in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, he loved his friends and they loved him And he used to learn books independently, and he was happy to learn with him in the study evenings of fathers and sons who were accustomed to elementary school, his father says, and in those days he joined the Ariel youth movement and met friends who met his good qualities He studied with great pleasure until his teacher, Pavlov, thought that from now on, thanks to his great talent, he could continue to study on his own, and Arieh thanked his teacher for the lessons that had brought him great satisfaction , And at the age of ten he wrote her a song accompanied by notes. And when he wrote a work on the development of music, he explained in his own words that in his play there is “an expression of the purity of the soul and the shaping of the soul.” His father says that he once sat down at the piano in the “Brett” nursing home and all the elderly gathered and asked him to continue playing because they were so happy to play it. The sounds of the organ, and later the sounds of the piano, accompanied Arieh and his family over the years. Some managed to disperse with a few hours of sadness, and some members of the family enjoyed the sounds at the end of the Sabbath, immediately after Havdala, as sounds emanating from the soul. But Aryeh’s adolescence was not easy. In ninth grade, he chose to study in the high school yeshiva in Beit El. Various factors troubled his soul, and she felt that she could not find herself rest. Aryeh insisted on moving to Yeshivat Hespein High School in the Golan Heights, a yeshiva attended by his older siblings. His teachers felt that Aryeh had a secret inner world, and that various troubles were bothering him, and they tried very hard to help him. A close friend from those years attests: “… In general, Aryeh did not accept life as it is, always wanted to move on, always wanted another.” At that time, when he was sixteen, the family moved to Dolev. Aryeh greeted the passage with great heart and was glad to have a small corner of his own. In his small room he would listen to music he loved and sink into reading without interruption. But Aryeh also knew how to give of himself and influence his goodness on others. Out of sensitivity and intelligence he knew how to touch people’s hearts, to be happy and happy. Beyond that, his loyalty to anyone close to him was unqualified. There was openness and a desire to accept and to know, and especially to love people. During those years Aryeh was a member of the “Bnei Akiva” movement and for a certain period was a counselor at the movement’s branch in Dolev. His children, the children of the “Ma’apilim” tribe, loved him very much, drew from the heat that radiated and drank thirstily the stories he told them. Aryeh loved the people in the Dolev, and when they turned to him for help, he always responded pleasantly, brightly, and with a smile. He was full of a lion, and his soul ascended to heights that no one deserves. Ateret describes his sister: “Your special personality is so delicate and so broad and infinite that it can not be absorbed into the body, which can not contain your special soul, which wants to break out and spread forth.” Towards the twelfth grade, Aryeh decided on the recommendation of his teachers to study for matriculation exams in an external school in JerusalemHis blessed talents and the satisfaction of his successes. In addition to his studies, he worked in the grocery store in Dolev, and here, too, he felt very satisfied. When the time came to decide on his military path, the decision was not easy for him and he was accompanied by many deliberations, until he chose to join the hesder yeshivas. At first he studied at the hesder yeshiva in Neve Dekalim and from there he moved to Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem. His teachers testified that while he was studying, he was one of the most knowledgeable and well-informed listeners. After a year of study, at the end of July 2001, Aryeh enlisted in the IDF as part of the “Hesder.” He was stationed in the Field Intelligence Corps and went to an observation course at the Intelligence and Tours School in Tze’elim, And during his studies he tried to help others who felt that they were in distress and with a few of them, even part of his own world.In the winter of 2003/03, Aryeh served as a sergeant for operations in the intelligence unit New – the “Nitzan” Battalion – the Central Command’s collection battalion at Ofer Camp. His army officers, who were aware of his difficulties, tried to support him and were able to appreciate his spiritual qualities and the intellectual depths he possessed. When I came to the war room at night I would see you sitting, reading a book and sinking into it so that sometimes there was no world other than the books for you.the conversations with you were fascinating, especially because your worldview was so fascinating and everything you believed was a reason, If it was not, you would invent one. ” Arieh fell in the line of duty on April 6, 2003. He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, leaving his parents, six brothers – Adiel, Eitan, Uri, Yosef Chai, Amichai and Nachshon and three sisters – Ateret, Chen and Renana, Aryeh’s father eulogized him at his funeral: “Our lion was only good and very gentle in relation to others, not even a particle of evil toward others. There were moments of laughter that are very familiar to your friends and brothers, but not to hurt, but to make a good atmosphere. … Aryeh, you were special, a special soul that came down to us for a twenty-year deposit, was filled with her mission and separated from us. We were certainly not always able to decipher your secrets. … We will remember you with your tenderness, your knowledge, your kindness, the sounds of your life, which you expressed in a great deal of reading and playing the piano. It is not yet clear to us, the hidden to the Lord our God. Your place is now in heaven to act there, in this world you probably did not have a rest, and the deposit was taken from us. “Peace be upon you, our dear lion, and rest in peace and stand for your fate at the end of the days.” Aryeh’s grandmother, Elisheva and Ganberg, eulogized him: “… storms have taken place in you, and we wish to overcome the stormy water crises of youth. But even in the days of Sa’ar, you found great understanding of a person’s soul, love and warm affection for youth. My father and mother told me with what wisdom and patience you spoke to a friend who was in a serious crisis. And indeed they thought that you were designated as an educator’s way of helping someone in his crises and suffering. … You believed in peace and looked forward to it. But peace in your mind is far from you, distant fears have overcome your spiritual height. And we pray that the Lord in heaven will find a precious rest for your precious soul. And we will remember you, Aryeh, your love of the sounds, your understanding of the human soul, your kindness, the breadth of your mind and your smile. “On the 30th anniversary of his downfall, the father spoke:” Aryeh chose life. In the endless expanses of life, where he apparently found peace and restOn the wings of the Divine Presence. … Your death is probably part of the struggles we have to go through, and we ask ourselves – what animal should he give him? “In spite of his brief stay in the unit, Aryeh was seen by his commanders as a smart soldier and an intelligent man, and Aryeh was described by his friends as a person who showed sensitivity Rabbah, and which the companies arranged, guided him in his actions. ” The commander of the unit wrote to the family: “Aryeh, you served in the battalion for only two months, you came to us with a strong desire to continue your service as a combat soldier for all intents and purposes, despite your medical limitations, which prevented you from doing so. As soon as possible, I wanted to go on the paths that your family and your parents were leading, but this way was interrupted by hostility. In the spring of 2003, before the first anniversary of his fall, Aryeh’s family published the memorial booklet “The Melody of His Life.” The commander of the Nitzan Battalion wrote: “… to see a guy A young man, an amazing philosopher with knowledge and abilities that was not by his age, was the best memory I could get from you, and sometimes I looked for a meeting with you to sneak a question into a problem that bothered me. I remember … The sages said: ‘Whoever has a soul within him, his soul can not be protected, but in the buildings he builds in his spiritual world’ – and you have worlds that are not May our memory be blessed. ” A member of the regiment wrote a song: “Waves It comes and does not go / Like in this huge drum hits you / enters, and does not come out / Membranes of memories pass through you / A gentle feeling of guilt / strangles in the throat, / And hardest / Longing / The sunsets are sad for me / And the sunrise … There is no point. / Why did you leave me? A childhood friend wrote in memory of Arieh: “There was a lot of innocence and integrity in Aryeh, and they certainly helped him to accept the lofty values ​​that his family and others around him gave him, a child who respected his parents, who loved his friends and helped them, a child with love for the Land of Israel. , Which remains with its positive innocence for many years … A lion that I remember, it is the same lion that I knew in childhood, with all the goodness and innocence that was in it … I have no doubt that even when he arrived at the yeshiva above, The grace of your youth … and the privilege of his wonderful childhood stands for him. ” Aryeh’s family commemorated his memory in other activities: Torah study, youth activities, and acts of kindness. An olive tree in his name was planted in the Memorial Park for the fallen of the Nitzan Battalion in Caesarea; Yair Rees, a member of the Birkat Yosef yeshiva in Elon Moreh, founded a Torah study fund to raise the soul of Arieh and Roi Oren, a flotilla fighter who fell in Nablus.