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Amichai, Etiel

Amichai, Etiel


Son of Yechiel and Henia. He was born on Thursday, 2 December 1925, in Moshav Tel-Adashim, where he was educated in the “Mahanot Haolim” and was educated in the “Mahanot Haolim.” After graduating from high school in 1942, He served in the IDF until the establishment of the IDF, and went from strength to strength and participated in various activities, such as purchasing weapons, immigration, training, fighting British rule, etc. He also participated in the War of Independence, first as a major and then as lieutenant colonel, as battalion commander and brigade commander in the Jerusalem and Negev systems. The date of his official enlistment is February 1948. He is one of the pioneers of Jerusalem. At the end of the war, he was appointed as a high school instructor and in 1950 he served as head of the training department at the General Staff. After serving as commander of a infantry brigade in 1951, he was transferred to the head of a platoon in the General Staff, and was the commander of the Jerusalem district in 1954-55. A year before the Sinai Campaign, he headed the civil defense services, participated in battles, In 1961 he began his blessed operation in Africa: first he was an IDF attaché and a representative of the Ministry of Defense in Accra, the capital of Ghana, and the following year he was transferred to Abijan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. The Embassy was responsible for organizing various activities for the youth in matters related to Nahal and Gadna, as well as technical assistance to developing countries. (In Western and Central Europe), he achieved many achievements, made friends with heads of state, their commanders and youth leaders, and he did this work out of dedication and love, and he did not work by himself when he wandered around the countries to instruct and guide (16.2.1963), went on a long trip with his family, and when he did his job he fell with his young wife, Ayelet (nee Jacob and Rivka) Halperin – Niv) and his daughter Ravit, age five. He laid two little girls. The coffins were brought to Israel and before the funeral procession passed, the president of the Ivory Coast, who was then in Israel, the Foreign Minister and the Director-General of the Ministry of Defense, the Deputy Minister of Defense and the Director-General of the Ministry of Defense, , Senior officers and senior officers of the Ministry of Defense, who were brought to eternal rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery, among them the Deputy Minister of Defense, Mr. Shimon Peres, the Chief of Staff and the Chief Rabbi of the IDF. The Ramle Municipality decided to name the fallen people a street from its new streets and two Etiel kindergartens were called in. In 1964, a circle of friends published a book in his memory and his memory His home is called “Beit Amichai”, in which, apart from things about him and his image and condolences on the disaster, he also gives a comprehensive account of his activities in “Africa”, together with his letters. The General Staff Library also established a section named after his fallen family, which contains theoretical material about Africa and Asia, and the activities that take place There, a special ceremony was held to commemorate these two events: his history, his estate and desert David son of-Gurion, Shimon Peres and Lt. Col. Zvi Tzur were brought out of the book “Out of Our Out” – about the pupils of the Tel Nordoi Elementary School in Tel Aviv, which the parents spent together with the school administration.

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