Zarif, Oren

Ben Hanna and Uri. He was born on 14.4.1976 in Ramat Gan, the eldest brother of Shammit and Rotem. Oren began his elementary studies at the Haviv School in Rishon Letzion and completed his studies at the Brenner School in Herzliya, after his family moved to the city in 1986. He continued to the Ben-Gurion Middle School and completed his studies in the humanities program at the Jubilee High School. Oren trained for about three years in the Survival and Jiu-Jitsu contact class, and won first place in the regional alumni championship for his weight and rank. Oren’s other love was literature, reading. Thus he was able to enjoy the unique combination of Safra and Saifah. In many ways, Oren was a man when he was still a boy. His maturity was evident in the inner quiet, the modesty and the thoroughness that characterized all his work. At the same time, he did not hesitate to demonstrate his unique sense of humor in his circle of friends, and to express the skill of the game and the stage he enjoyed. Oren was very attached to his family, a devoted son and a loving brother. His peaceful personality served as an example for his brother and sister and made sure of their safety out of a sense of commitment and responsibility. Oren was expected to serve as a combat soldier in a combat unit and was trained to achieve a suitable level of physical fitness, and on the day he was drafted into compulsory military service in late November 1994 he was assigned to the Golani Brigade as a sniper in the Gideon Battalion. He was a great sniper and was exceptionally placed under pressure, and Oren helped his comrades in everything he could, and was admired and accepted by them and his commanders alike. Oren hid his certificate of excellence in his closet To travel the world, and particularly appealed to him the Australian continent. About six weeks before his release, on 28 August 1997, Oren fell in battle in the eastern sector of the security zone in southern Lebanon. Two days earlier he had gone out with his friends to the activity, and the group of fighters had spent about forty hours in an ambush in Wadi Saluki in southern Lebanon. On Thursday morning they encountered a squad of terrorists. In the battle that developed, the fighters succeeded in killing several terrorists, but in the fire that broke out in the field of thorns in which five of the fighters were killed, among them Oren. Staff Sergeant Oshri Schwartz, Staff Sergeant Roi Shukron, Sergeant Shimon Simon and Sergeant Cashon Shamato. He was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Herzliya. Survived by his parents, brother and sister. After his fall, Oren was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and his family commemorated him in a kindergarten he established in his home in Herzliya. And courageous and liquidated himself a terrorist squad of one of the two … When the fire broke out, he was pulled back with the rest of his friends, but he was left behind to make sure that everyone was fine until the fire caught him … His exemplary behavior and nobility … worthy of imitation and forever accompanied us. With a special breed that you can not find every day, a hero and a real soldier … “