Ben-Ami, Raphael
Son of Meir and Rachel. He was born in 1936 in Morocco and immigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied at the Aloni Yitzhak Youth Village and in 1953 was in the Gadna-Yam and later served in the Israeli Navy and participated in the Sinai Campaign. In February 1958, he was praised for his vision and initiative in putting out the fire that broke out in the refrigerator room of the ship where he jumped into it and did not leave until he realized that the fire had been completely extinguished. And worked as an officer on the ship. After the war he joined the staff of the “Eilat” company and during the Six Day War he served in the destroyer, after the war he helped to sink two Egyptian torpedoes. He was one of the men whose energy and strength were devoted to the proper operation of the ship. But on the 18th of Tishrei 5728 (21.10.1967) he went down to the depths of the sea when the destroyer was drowned by Egyptian missiles in front of the Romanian heat in northern Sinai, and since his body was not found a monument was placed in his memory at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He was later assigned a gravestone in the military cemetery in Haifa. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.
