Arnon Benveniste-Vaspi, 26, HYD

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.