Aharonov, Amos

Son of Efrayim (HaKohen) and Shulamit. He was born on 19.6.1953 in Hadera and began his studies at the “Ahad Ha’am” elementary school in his city. He completed his studies at the Technical School of the Israel Air Force and was certified as an elector, Amos was fond of playing the accordion and organ, and he was a music lover and even built a stereo system with his own hands, Amos was drafted into the IDF in mid-April 1972 and assigned to the air force. A busy business, he was an electronics technician and a ground-based communications technician. He received a summons for a pilot course, did a long term in this course, finished flying in the Fuga Magister training plane and advanced to the stage of the Skyhawks. “Amos is not proud of his accomplishments and stands out in his modesty,” he says. On the 26th of Tevet, 5707 (9.1.1975) – only two months before he was about to complete the course, a busy flying bird fell while carrying out his duties. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Hadera. Survived by his parents and brother. After they fell, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In the pamphlet ‘With all their might,’ a hand to the people of Hadera who fell in the Israeli wars, things are brought to his memory; In the journal ‘A Little Time’, published by the Ahad Ha’am school, the friends of Amos are brought.