Background
Yaron was born in Zagreb and was the only child of Rabbi Miroslav Šalom and Irena (née Steiner) Freiberger.
Yaron was born in Zagreb and was the only child of Rabbi Miroslav Šalom and Irena (née Steiner) Freiberger.
During World World War II, at the end of 1942, Yaron"s father has escorted the last group of rescued Jews from Zagreb to Budapest and Istanbul, from where they were transferred to Mandatory Palestine. Among the ten underage girls and boys was Yaron. The group had received travel documents only after Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac and Vatican officials had intervened with the Independent State of Croatia authorities.
In 1943, following 16 days of travel, Yaron arrived in Palestine.
Upon his arrival, he Hebraized his name and surname. He was adopted by Avraam and Lina Avni and accepted into the Sha"ar HaAmakim Kibbutz.
Yaron took lessons at the Tel-Aviv Conservatorium. There he studied under the mentorship of one of the most prominent Israeli composers, Mordechai Seter.
At the age of 15 he conducted a choir.
The choir sang Yaron’s song. In 1956 was killed while fighting as a soldier in the Suez War. He was buried at the national military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.