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Soldier killed days before discharge

By Eli Ashkenazi

Israel Defense Forces soldier Ben-Zion Henman, 22, who was killed yesterday in Nablus, was buried yesterday in the southern Golan regional cemetery.

A neighbor described Henman, who was to have finished his service in two weeks, as "handsome, inside and out, a quiet guy who loved his family and his friends, the land and its scenery."

Relatives said Henman's dream was to travel after his service, to study agriculture and work in the family olive groves and organic vineyard.

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Henman was born in Susya in the southern Hebron mountains to Tamar and Ya'akov Henman. Later, the family moved to Moshav Nov in the southern Golan Heights. After he finished high school, Henman studied for a time at a yeshiva in Mitzpeh Ramon before going in to the army and joining the paratroop reconnaissance unit.

"There were people in the moshav who thought he'd be a pilot like his dad and another relative, but he wanted to be in the infantry," moshav member Devorah Bar said yesterday.

Tamar Henman was a member of the moshav's emergency team, and assisted families in the situation in which she now finds herself. Three years ago she informed her neighbors, the Horowitz family, that their son Eilon had been killed in an IDF training accident.

Ya'akov Henman, Ben-Zion's father, was a member of the Jewish Underground in 1982, as was his brother, also named Ben-Zion, and known to family as "Bentz," who was one of the first settlers in Hebron in 1968, and among Nov's founders.

The members of Moshav Nov, established in 1972, note proudly that one-third of its approximately 670 members were born there.

Ben-Zion Henman is survived by his parents and nine brothers and sisters.

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