Avni (Finkelstein), Zvi

Son of Gershon and Sarah. He was born in 1943 in Russia in 1948. In 1948, at the height of the War of Independence, he immigrated to Israel with his family, where he studied at the Mesilot Elementary School in Dura, Netanya, and at the ORT vocational high school in Netanya. He was a serious guy by nature and everything he did was done well, faithfully and responsibly Zvi was drafted into the IDF in the middle of August 1961 and volunteered to serve in the air force. On behalf of the army, he underwent various courses and even joined the regular army. At first he was an aircraft mechanic and later an officer in the engines section. When he reached the rank of master sergeant, he decided to leave for an officer’s course and successfully completed it, moving up the ranks to the rank of lieutenant, on the 29th of Sivan 5732 (29.5.1972), he fell in the line of duty and left a wife and two sons. The military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, the head of the equipment department in the air force wrote his wife a letter of condolences, expressed regret over the fall of Zvi and testified that the air force would not be able to forget Zvi and his actions and that had Zvi not found his death, And the self-confidence that characterized him, he concluded his letter with the hope that the widow would find solace in the work of his friends and himself, Corps tradition that deer loved so much and who has devoted his best years.