Zaken, Avi (Abraham)

Ben Orit Gabay and Amnon Zaken, was born on May 15, 1981 in Jerusalem. A cute boy with shiny, laughing eyes. When he was a year old, his brother Nati was born, and the friendship between them began. Two years later, his parents divorced and my father moved in with his mother and brother in Ashdod. A few years later the mother remarried to Moshe, who took the two sons under his wing and raised them as if they were his sons. The family moved to Kiryat Haim, where they were born. My father studied at the Netivim Elementary School in Kiryat Haim. He was a diligent student, diligent and inquisitive, who liked to learn. My father was a friendly and loving child, surrounded by many friends. As a child he was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement. During his free time he played a lot of basketball. He began his high school studies at the Kiryat Haim Comprehensive School, where he studied until the ninth grade, and continued at the IAF Technical School in Haifa. Until his induction into the army, my father worked for a Polish contractor, and he was diligent and loved to work. He was very motivated to serve in the Golani army, but the recruiting center was given a low medical profile and was referred to basic training in the army. He was loved by his friends and volunteered to help them On the 9th of Tammuz 5759 (23.6.1999), my father fell during his service and he is eighteen years old. He was laid to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Yam cemetery. Survived by his parents, two brothers and a sister. To commemorate his memory, the family donated a Torah library to the synagogue in Kiryat Haim and a Torah library to the Geulay Hashem Synagogue in Jerusalem. “When my father came to live here, he was a boy of elementary school, a quiet boy, very quiet, even to the extent that he was better known as ‘the older brother of Nati’ “My father had a very special and unusual personality and a rich soul, as evidenced by the books he had read, But when my father came to the army, we all, all the surroundings, saw that he had reached the rest and that he The boy was simply horny, people would stop by him – and not just because of the uniform, the beauty and the height he had, but that smile, the radiant smile of great happiness, of perfection … “