Bahir, Eliyahu (‘Eli’)

Son of Hanan and Atalia. He was born on 29.6.1945 in Kibbutz Givat Brenner near the end of the Second World War. He attended elementary school and high school in Givat Brenner. At the age when he began to understand what was going on around him, the War of Independence took place in Israel, when the father, who served in the Hebrew fighting forces, was usually absent from the house, while not far from the kibbutz there were heavy battles. Eli was very interested in the battles of the War of Independence, and all the literature she described was clear to him, and in the high school he prepared a thorough study of the Holocaust period, in which he was also very knowledgeable. He chose the paratroopers, although by nature he had a soft, gentle soul that was not easily adapted to the tough life of this unit. And he was assigned the role of paramedic, during which he underwent courses for paramedics, parachutists, commanders and various training courses. As a paramedic, he participated in the battle for the liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War and six years later took part in the battles for the passage to the West Bank of the Suez Canal in the Yom Kippur War. When Eliahu finished his compulsory army service, he was forced to spend a year in the service of the movement, and he worked as a guide in the united movement and was admired by his students, who maintained contact with him until his last day. , Decided to leave the kibbutz and study on his own. “I left an orderly house to live like a gypsy – but to learn,” he wrote He eventually received a job at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, which enabled him to continue his studies and even successfully conclude his MA in History and Political Science, and wished to continue his studies in the academic track In November 1975. In November 1975, he was called up for an active reserve duty, during which he boarded a crashed Hercules plane, and he and some of his comrades found their death on the 22nd of Kislev 5736 (25.11.1975) Worlds on the soil of Givat Brenner. He left behind a mother and brother.