Amer, Raif

Son of Samia and Hanaa. Was born on May 22, 1967 in Yanuh, a traditional Druze village in the Western Galilee. At the age of five he began his studies in the village’s elementary school. In his youth, he showed a tendency to creative work in the field of mechanics and electronics. He chose to continue his studies at the Amal vocational school in Nahariya, while doing practical training at the Egged garage in Nahariya. During this period he was active in the Scouts and Gadna youth movements in the village, where he worked in bodybuilding and devoted a great deal of time to this, and even improvised a gym in his room. He was modest, traditional, quiet and introverted, and began to work in all sorts of odd jobs, mainly physical ones, and continued to develop his physical fitness. For a while he was in a state of distress, and in the end decided to enlist in the IDF. He took a driving course and was trained as a driver. At the beginning of August 1987 he was drafted into the IDF and assigned as a mechanic driver in the Ein Yahav brigade. When he was about to leave, he went on vacation and after a few days interrupted his vacation when it became clear to him that his commander had no driver, he separated from his family And was preparing to return on Thursday and hold a release party with his family and friends on May 31, 1990. He was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in the village of Yanuh, leaving behind his parents, five brothers and three sisters – Ma’arif, Magid, , Nada, Anisa and Anat