Avivi (Aborba), Eliahu (“Eli”)

Son of Yosef and Shulamit. He was born on the first night of Hanukkah (25 Kislev, December 23, 1951) in Jerusalem and attended the “Neve Etzion” elementary school in the Bayit Vagan neighborhood. At that time he was a member of the religious “Scouts” movement, the “Masuot” tribe. He completed his high school studies at the Nativ Meir high school in Jerusalem. During his studies in elementary and high school, and during his military service, he exchanged letters with friends and pen friends in many countries, since he was a member of the International Bad Correspondence Club, based in Japan. He had various hobbies such as collecting stamps and coins and building models of airplanes and ships. Eli’s conversation was captivating. He liked to listen carefully to everything his interlocutors said, even when he did not agree. He never shouted and did not get angry with the argument, but tried to find common points of view in the conversation and to put the words of his interlocutor to the test. He formulated his views not according to the dictates and thoughts of others, but deepened his thinking and analysis and reached out of intellectual curiosity with his own conclusions. He respected his parents and admired his brother and loved to travel in Israel with them, as with his peers. He was proud of his warm home, which contributed greatly to shaping his unique personality. At home make sure to assist in all. As a man of action and reality, he was active and active in all that was necessary to do at home. His possessions and books were in perfect order and he never lost anything. When he set himself tasks, he carried them out without delay and adhering to his goal. Was full of humor, joy of life and laughter, head and center for each group. But at the same time he was sentimental, gentle, and addicted. In the few months between the end of his high school years and his enlistment in the IDF, Eli managed to work, and with the money he earned from a trip abroad (a “hitchhike” trip) with a friend. The letters and postcards he sent from this trip were full of descriptions of events and people, including intelligent responses to all the new surroundings. Already in these letters, he found a rich, sensitive, articulate and humorous writing ability that was expressed in his many letters to his friends and friends during his military service. Bali was a natural and simple homeland. Before he enlisted in the IDF, he told his friend that his ambition to be a pilot was to ask him if he was not afraid, and he replied that there was no choice but that he wanted to live, but he added that if anything happened to him, At the beginning of January 1970, after tests, he was assigned to the Armored Corps. After completing basic training and another course, he was certified as a liaison officer and was assigned as a staff member in an armored unit. He was always one of the best staff in the unit. In each exercise there was a company commander’s tank or battalion commander’s tank. Then he went to a tank commanders course. In this course, he excelled in responsibility for the equipment and people, with natural leadership and self-control, and it was decided to leave him at the headquarters in a central position. In the course of his service, he was often asked to go to an officers’ course, but this step necessitated the extension of the service, and he was impatient to begin medical studies, which was his dream from his childhood. Was killed in the course of his duty on one of the Sinai roads and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, and his commander wrote in a letter of condolence to his parents: “Eli arrived directly from the tank commanders’ course. Because of his seriousness and dedication, he was fond of his commanders and his co-workers, the typical quiet in which he performed the duties assigned to him, his loyalty to the job, his concern for the rest of his friends, And he was appointed to the NCOI have no words to express my deep sorrow and the sorrow of all his comrades and commanders in the unit for his untimely death. “