Son of Zeev and Ruchama. He was born on December 14, 1951 in Kibbutz Hazorea in the Jezreel Valley. He did his elementary studies at the local school and received high school education at the Shomria Institute in Mishmar Ha’emek. From his youth, Avihu was an active and devoted apprentice in the company of youth in the institution. Avihu was a brilliant student, and during his studies he also practiced gymnastics, running and gymnastics. After graduating, Avihu left for a year of training as a counselor in the Hashomer Hatzair movement in the Ramatayim camp (1969/70). Avihu’s great love was for music: From the age of 13 he learned to play the trumpet. He took part in the Kibbutz Orchestra and played solo pieces. He continued to play, even when he was active in the movement and the army. Used to play all the holidays and celebrations on the kibbutz; He was also a member of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and liked its members. Avihu grew up in the shadow of his brother Akiva’s mortal illness, which was confined to his chair and bed, and unlike his human condition, some of his brothers were able to rise and spread wings – as his favorite nurturers, or to fly on airplanes, which he knew amazingly by the hum of their engines, Yizrael, apparently, suffered and yearned for his late brother Abito in Avihu’s ambition and determined determination to fly high. In the eyes of his teachers and friends, Avihu was exposed as a resolute, resolute man, united in his views and actions, who strove tirelessly to fulfill his mission. His activity in school, his playing in the trumpet, the exhausting exercise training and the sense of responsibility in every job he did dealt with surprising stability, talent and rare perseverance. His organized agenda and thoroughness were, for example, an example among his knowledge. It was not possible to remove him from the path he had set for himself in acts of mischief, gossip or idle moments. His approach to life reflected seriousness and a strict principled approach to others, accompanied by a thin humor and irony about society and the kibbutz; There was someone who saw it as a manifestation of rigidity and roughness, but Avihu stuck to his principles, was willing to swim against the current and persevere in his consistent course. He identified with the movement and its ideas, and his connection to the kibbutz was based on firm foundations. During the movement’s year of training, Avihu met for the first time with Aya, and since then there has been a growing friendship and roots of love, which have been reduced to the changes in time and maturity. The closer he got to the army, the more he rejoiced for the day when his dream of youth would come true, and he would spread his wings. However, at first he was disqualified from going to a pilot’s course, and he began his career as a rookie in the army, in an elite infantry unit. Injury to his leg interrupted this route, and Avihu again turned to the pilot, and this time there was no obstacle in his way, and he was a navigator in the phantom plane. At the end of compulsory service, Avihu returned to his kibbutz, to his parents, together with Aya, his girlfriend. According to his wish, Avihu set out to train as an adult emissary in the educational movement in Israel; And in the meantime he worked in a factory in the kibbutz – when the kibbutz and Avihu were preparing plans for his future studies and integration. But all of these were shattered, when in one of his flights, as part of the reserve service, Avihu and his comrade-in-command never returned. Avihu died in the course of his duty – on 29.12.1977, at the age of 26. He was brought to eternal rest on the land of the “Zor’a” in the cemetery on the slope of the wadi. Left their parents and sister in mourning. After his fall he was promoted to captain.
