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Alkalai, Aminadav (‘Ami’)

Alkalai, Aminadav (‘Ami’)


Son of Haim Vitty. Born on July 16, 1947 in Haifa, he completed six years of schooling at the Tel Hai elementary school in Neve Sha’anan and later moved to the Be’eri elementary school and studied there for another year. He was then accepted to the Reali High School in Haifa, where he studied for five years and completed high school in biology. The Reali School strengthened its character, and within that framework worked in the Gadna organization and headed the Gadna campaigns in those days. Ami loved music and played the accordion well. Yes, he took part in a drama club in the school. But most of all he loved flying. He joined Gadna-Air, took part in courses in aviation, saw and learned to fly in private lessons, and in 1965 he went with a delegation of the Gadna Air to Europe and Canada. He was a very sociable boy and was very active in social activities: organizing parties, active in accordion lessons. He was also a member of the Scout movement as an apprentice and counselor. He had a lover of the land in Aminadav, whom he nursed in his parents’ home from his childhood, as well as during the trips he had made with the Egged Haifa Wanderers together with the parents. Ami was drafted into the IDF in November 1965. After completing basic training, he successfully completed the pilot course in all its stages, and in 1967 became an officer and pilot in the Israel Air Force, and participated in the Six Day War as an apprentice, In 1968 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and a year later served as an intelligence officer in his unit and later became a pilot, and he was a pilot and an example soldier, his responsibility, his seriousness and the quality of his performance. All the assessments written by his commanders were full of praise and excellent predictions about his continued career in the corps One of the maxims that guided him on his way to the army was: “To command, it is to love your subordinates,” and so he did: He loved his subordinates, loved the framework of his role and the corps, and contributed the best of his energies, talents and abilities For the sake of the army and the air force, and in 1970 he served as the deputy commander of a course at the aviation school, and in the same year he married his girlfriend, and a year later he was promoted to the rank of captain, during which he took advantage of his vacations and left in 1971 and 1974, To travel and see the world. In the Yom Kippur War he took me on his plane to attack on the Egyptian front. His plane was hit, and he had to abandon it and drop. He was taken prisoner and sent to hospital for treatment of both his legs, which were broken during the abandonment. He spent many difficult weeks in an Egyptian prison, and when he returned to Israel, he was sent to the hospital for various operations and treatments. Oz-spirit and devotion-purpose were his main characteristics. His spirit was not broken even after he fell twice from a burning plane and when he faced the trials of hardships in Egyptian captivity, and he was seriously wounded. By virtue of his perseverance and will, he was able to rehabilitate himself. In August 1973, his eldest son was born, and he was very Simcha. In 1974 he was awarded the rank of Major, and in 1975 he was sent to Washington and served as Assistant Air Attache. Then an Assistant Procurement Assistant was appointed. That same year he had a daughter. In 1978 he completed his term abroad and returned to Israel on April 22, 1979. He was brought to rest in the military section of the military cemetery in Haifa and left behind a wife, son, daughter, Parents and sister, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel after his fall.In his eulogy on the thirtieth day of his death, his commander said: “Ami, do not worry. I do not mean to eulogize you. A commander and a warrior do not eulogize. Such, like you, remind and remind, because nostalgia misses itB. Such a pain in your chest that you feel when you’re afraid. They are afraid not of death but of fear that those who fall, the good ones, will not return. Reminds, because you appreciate it. Really appreciate something, something like you, Ami, that was something special … “

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