By COLlive reporter
The IDF has announced that Captain Arnon Moshe Avraham Benveniste Vaspi, a combat officer in the Givati Brigade, was killed yesterday in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
He was 26 years old.
Arnon was from a Lubavitch family formerly from San Francisco, then Los Angeles, and later moving to Israel. He is the son of Mrs. Vered Vaspi-Tsabari, a Chabad family from the northern settlement of Yisod HaMa’ale.
Arnon was a graduate of the ‘Or Menachem’ Chabad Talmud Torah in Tzfas.
His mother and family are active members of the Chabad community in Yisod HaMa’ale, led by Shliach Rabbi Yaakov Raizes, with whom Arnon had a warm relationship.
Arnon’s grandfather Yoav Vaspi, Vered’s father – was killed defending the land of Israel in the battle in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, and her brother, Arnon, after whom her son was named – was killed in the Lebanon war in 1982.
“Arnon was a special and charismatic young man, blessed with talents and greatly loved by everyone,” said his friends.
He leaves behind his mother Vered Vaspi-Tsabari, his brother Yosef Yitzchok, and his twin sister Chaya Mushka. His father R’ Dovid Benveniste passed away in 2016.
The Levaya will take place today at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina at 14:00.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
Aibishter it’s enough! Have רחמנות on your children!! Bring Moshiach Now!!!
BS”D
How do we contact the family please?
You can reach out to Rabbi Reitzes from Yesod Hamaalah
He went to cheder menachem in la as as well, I remember him in school
We carpooled together to cheder in LA. Oy BDE. Hashem plz.
Enough, Enough, Enough…
Show The World Some Mercy for Your Chosen Children
IT’S TOTTAL UNACCEPTABLE
THIS IS VICIOUS NOT HUMAN
No one can fathom the ways of Hashem. May He have mercy on His People and reveal the geulah now.
Too much pain and suffering for this family and all of Klal Yisrael
Baruch Dayan haemes
Sorry to hear!!! !!! !!!
So much heartbreak. We r so saddened by your loss
BDE
R”L Another korban- HASHEM YINKOM DAMAN
many gr8 tzaddikim bore the name Benveniste
pls plead lifnei haKisei for an end to our suffering
& our precarious situation..pls listen to your
tzon mariticha- I’ve been slaughtered
we’re being slaughtered..shfoch chamascha!!!!
ENOUGH!!!