Ben Yehudit and Yosef. Born on September 25, 1976 in Kibbutz Yifat, Nir, the youngest of the five children of Yehudit and Yossi, was a good and smiling child, and his brothers, Yoram and Tomer and his twin sisters Hadas and Galit, All of his nannies loved him and he was a child who was all “fun.” In first grade, Nir learned to read with surprising speed, and when it became clear that he was suffering from a kind of laziness, The problem of the eye was treated and the eyes were so much so that the recruitment office found no fault in his vision and even received a summons for a pilot’s course. Chen, his inner beauty, the kindness and optimism. A year before joining the Army, underwent knee surgery and Nir recruitment declined in ten months. At the time, after recovering from surgery, Nir worked in the farm. From time to time he went out with children to summer camps and trips, the children became attached to him and loved him very much. Nir has created a wonderful relationship with children in general and with his nephews in particular. Always, when he went out to play with his little nephews, other children would arrive in no time and would attack him and go wild with him. Nir never shook off a child; He played with everyone patiently, uncharacteristic of boys his age. The kibbutz members also loved him, they learned to know him mainly when he worked in the dining room. Nir took care of every friend, old and young; He soon learned what each of them liked and tried to get what they wanted – Nir loved people and always looked for help. A special relationship was created between Nir and Yoram, his older brother. Yoram, for his part, felt a little like Nir’s father, who gave him advice on how to behave in the army, in armor, and in life in general. His friends, his classmates, had enlisted a year earlier and Nir had quickly joined the members of the class below him. One of them was Amitai, the son of a farm that was a year younger than Nir, and was drafted into the army with him.Nai was really worried about him, and when Nir was not calling home, it was clear that Nir would make sure to report to him and reassure his parents. His parents knew how much they were worried about him and was willing to take a lot of trouble to calm them in. Despite Nir’s problems with the knee, he had gone through the course of training tank commanders and had successfully completed the course. , He was considered a particularly talented instructor, and was even chosen to be an outstanding instructor by both campers and commanders Nir was very fond of Pac “Nir Nir,” wrote the mother of a soldier who was a student of Nir: “I was really excited and glad that my son fell into the hands of a guide, Who was just a little older than him, and despite the position of power that the position affords him, he managed to contact his apprentices, who earned him the nickname ‘David Nir.’ “Nir’s commanders greatly appreciated his skills and when they needed a gunner to go to Lebanon, they chose him. On the evening of 28 February 1997, the helicopter disaster occurred when two Yasur helicopters collided over Moshav Shear Yashuv. The seventy-three fighters, who made their way to operational activity in Lebanon, were killed. Among the fallen was Nir. He was only twenty years old when he fell. Nir was brought to rest in the IDF cemetery in Kibbutz Yifat, leaving behind his parents, two brothers and two sisters, and Nir was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant, and his family commemorated him in a playgroundThe kibbutz. This garden was renovated and given the name “Gan Nir”. A beautiful illuminated sign was placed there engraved with the name of the garden and details on paper. The family also published a booklet in his memory.
