Avishar, Uri

Uri, son of Shoshana and Natan, was born on October 15, 1953 in Jerusalem Uri was drafted into the IDF in February 1972 and assigned to the Armored Corps, and his parents asked him to try to join the IDF orchestra, but he refused. After basic training, he completed a high-grade training course in the Patton tanks and was awarded a high grade (85). During his military service he received his “Operational Service Mark” and did his best not to worry his parents and tried to come home even during his short vacations, on the 18th of Tishrei 5734 14.10.1973), a day before he was twenty years old, was killed in the central sector of Sinai when he was hit by a direct hit by a missile when he volunteered to stand outside, exposed in the turret of his tank, A mother and three brothers, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant: “Uri was a great soldier and an excellent team leader. He clung to his role, showing courage and recognition of the mission he had filled. His tank was destroyed from the enemy’s weapons. He and his friends moved from tank to tank until they were hit and killed. “His parents published a booklet in his memory, including fragments of a poem and the words of family members and friends, and the family established a library in his apartment in Neveh Ya’akov.