Alcalay, Rafael (Rafi)
Son of Victoria and David. Raphael (Rafi) was born in the Abu Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem on April 1, 1966. Was the youngest of his family with the children, a brother of nine brothers and sisters. Rafi grew up in a religious family, attended elementary school for boys, and from there went on to the Himmelfarb high school with a theoretical track. In the army, Rafi served in Givati, went to an officer’s course and served as a company commander, and after graduating he went to social studies for a bachelor’s degree, working mostly with exceptional populations. Rafi enlisted in the Israel Prison Service, first at the Givon prison where he served as a commanding officer and later as a commanding officer. Later, he was assigned to training positions at the Nir School, and in his last position served as a platoon commander in a special officer course. Lieutenant-Colonel Rafi fell in the Carmel disaster. On Thursday, 25 Kislev, on the 2 nd of December 2010, a forest fire burned on Mount Carmel, always green. The fire, known as the “Carmel disaster”, the largest in the country’s history, destroyed a forest, grove and residential buildings in a large area of the Carmel Park and surrounding communities. About seventeen thousand people were evicted from their homes, close to twenty-five thousand dunams and millions of trees burned. About a third of Kibbutz Beit Oren houses went up in flames and dozens of other homes in the Ein Hod Artists Village and the Yemin Orde Youth Village. Only three days later did the fire forget. In the hours following the outbreak of the fire, strong winds blew the flames, which quickly spread to the Hik River, the Har Alon reserve, Damon Prison, Shukf Mountain Nature Reserve and Kibbutz Beit Oren. Due to grave concern for human life, it was decided to evacuate prisoners from Damon Prison and then to Carmel Prison. The officers’ bus and the officers of the officers’ training course of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), Class A. At 15:30, the cadets’ bus moved between ancient quarries and Beit Oren, followed by police cars. The fire broke through the walls of the bus, huge walls of fire blocked the traffic artery, seized everything, and at the peak of every shred of life, forty-four men and women perished, thirty-seven of them officers of the Prisons Service Officers and course commanders , Three firemen and three police officers, Rafi was forty-four years old in his fall And a long-time relative in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, leaving behind a wife and four children – two sons and two daughters
