Abram, Eli

Batya and Avraham’s eldest son. Eli was born on 28.3.1963 in Rishon Letzion, the eldest brother of Anat, Rami and Halik, and Eli successfully completed his studies at the Be’eri Elementary School. He went on to the ORT high school, which he successfully completed as a mechanic. Eli stood out as an outstanding student and a successful athlete. In ninth grade he won the title of champion of the Central District in short and long runs for youth. In addition to his involvement in sports, he was a social activist and served as chairman of the Southern Student Council. He began his military service as a mechanic in the navy and eight months later was transferred to a combat unit in the Armored Corps. During the Lebanon War in 1982 he fought as a tank commander. Upon his discharge from the IDF in 1984, Liam volunteered for the Israel Police’s Counter-Terrorism Unit. He took a fighter training course and was assigned to one of the units. Eli has proven himself to have developed technical and physical skills, leadership, initiative and courage. He was promoted to team leader. In 1986, after completing a sabotage course of the Israel Police in the Yarkon Region, Eli was trained as a thief. In March 1987 Eli married Anat and moved to Jerusalem. In this city their son Roy was born. In the summer of 1988, he was sent to me from the negotiations office for an officers’ course in which he excelled, and when he returned he became commander of the YMAT. About a year later, he retired and went to serve in the Central District Drug Department as head of the department. In 1991, the undercover unit – the Israel Defense Forces – was established and Eli was chosen to set up and head it. The soldiers were chosen by Eli, and all of them demonstrated motivation and high combat values, and soon the Shin Bet sought to integrate them into more complex operations to capture wanted men after Eli brought about a revolution in working patterns in capturing wanted persons. On August 26, 1992, Eli’s combat team closed a house in which two of the wanted persons of the Black Panther organization were hiding in the Jenin area. An old woman standing guard at the house suddenly opened with shouts of failure, and automatically opened fire at the force. Eli took command of the takeover and climbed onto the roof of the house, where he wanted to descend and surprise the terrorists. Suddenly a bullet was fired, and Eli was hit in the head by a bullet and died instantly. Superintendent Eli was twenty-nine years old when he fell. He was buried in the police section of the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Thousands of officers and soldiers from the undercover units, members of the Shin Bet and the IDF headquarters in Judea and Samaria accompanied him on his last journey, leaving behind a wife and son. Central Command. Eli was commemorated in a number of ways: His name is etched in a monument to the fallen in the YMCA, and in August 1993 a grove was named after Eli, near Neve Shalom. On Hanukkah every year, the Eli torch relay – the YMS race from the Tomb of the Maccabees – is held in Modi’in towards the grove in the name of Neve Shalom. At the end of the race, a candle-lighting ceremony was held. In an investigation conducted in 2017 it was emphasized that the decoration of courage was awarded by the Israel Police.