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| Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel |
| 08/06/2003 |
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| Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 31, of Ramat Gan
Chen Engel grew up in Bat-Yam and Holon and attended the ORT High School in Holon. During his army service in the Nahal paratroops, he spent time in Kibbutz Ginossar where he settled after the army. His wife Lilach was a member of his Nahal group and they were married five years ago.
After completing engineering studies at the Tel-Hai Regional College, he and his wife Lilach, in her fifth month of pregnancy, and their 3-year-old son moved to a new flat in Ramat Gan a few months ago, which they renovated. A trained software programmer, he worked for his father Mordechai in the car industry, ''the brains and heart of the business,'' said a relative. It was typical of him, said friends, that soon after they moved in, he volunteered to run the house committee.
Chen's friends say he didn't need to be at the Erez junction, that his medical profile had been lowered since he served in the Nahal paratroops, and that he could have opted out of combat duty, but he insisted on volunteering. He began his reserve duty at Erez fort on Thursday. He was a modest, honest man who loved music, who believed in coexistence and preached it.
Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel was buried in the military section of the Nes Ziona cemetery. He is survived by his wife Lilach and their 3-year-old son Itamar.
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