Baram (Behem), Yitzhak
Itzhak (Itzik), son of Shoshana and Yaakov, was born on the 27th of Adar 5751 (25.3.1951) in Moshav Bitzron. He studied at the Gan Yavneh-Bitzaron Elementary School in Gan Yavne, and later continued his studies in the ORT vocational high school in Rehovot, in the electronics track. Itzik grew up in a moshav where he bought the values for which he was educated. As a youth he was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement. Even in his youth, he was interested in electronics, mathematics, and aviation. He was a chess fan. Yitzhak was drafted into the Israel Air Force in early August 1969. After completing basic training, he was assigned to a “Phantom” squadron as a navigator, and at the beginning of 1971 he was sent to a short training course abroad. In November 1971, Itzik was promoted to lieutenant, and two days later he was shot down in a MiG 21. After about a year he was assigned to the flight school as a navigator instructor, and served in this capacity until the Yom Kippur War. 1972 married his girlfriend and lived with her in Be’er Sheva, near the bases where he served During the Yom Kippur War, his squadron mostly engaged in bombing targets deep in the enemy’s territory and participated in about thirty sorties in Syria and Egypt, including attacks on airports and oil tanks, and in air battles and the downing of an airplane. Flight to attack an enemy battery, his plane was hit by missiles, and Itzik and the pilot landed in front of Kantara, about 8 kilometers deep in Egypt. Itzik was captured by the Egyptians and returned from captivity more than a month later. He recounted the story of his capture in Egypt, including his experiences during the captivity, during a meal of thanksgiving from the Secretariat of the Moshav Movement, held in Moshav Yanuv, in honor of the moshavim returning from captivity in Egypt. The article was published in the journal “Moshav Talmim” (“The Talmim”), a booklet from Nissan in March 1974. Itzik was the first to return from captivity to work and to train him, and after the war he was promoted to the rank of Captain On February 12, 1974, Itzik fell in an airplane accident while carrying out his duties as a navigator’s instructor. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Bitzaron. Survived by a wife, parents and sister. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the commander of the flight school wrote: “Yitzhak was one of the best, most beloved and expensive in our studies at the flight school.
