Appelblat, Amir

Ben Esther and Joseph. Born on September 25, 1964 in Tel Aviv, to a family of two children. Amir attended the “Nitzanim” elementary school and junior high school at Alliance, both in Ramat Aviv and at the Ironi YA high school in Tel Aviv, where Amir was about two years old. His father Yossi, an armored corps officer, was killed in the Six Day War and the tragedy left his mark on his childhood Amir was a polite, serious and introverted boy, his teachers and friends admired him for his knowledge of history, archeology, geography and Greek culture, and was an excellent student and sports fan, especially basketball. His role in devotion and won the assessment of his commanders and his comrades. After the liberation, he studied history and classical culture at Tel Aviv University. In the last years of his life, he worked in the Tel Aviv Municipality’s City View Department, where he helped many with good advice and action to his fellow workers, many of them new immigrants. For ten years, Amir made a point of reserve duty and served as a warehouse and technical officer at the storage base of the Ordnance Corps, to the full satisfaction of his commanders. Amir fell in the course of his duties, on June 6, 1996. He was thirty-one years old when he fell. Survived by his mother and sister – Orna. He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.