Son of Rachel and Yitzhak, was born on 17.8.1978 in Moshav Bnei Ram. A young brother to the municipality, Efrat and Eilat. A wonderful and smiling child, lively and full of joie de vivre, who has become a charming, cheerful young man with a captivating boyish mischievousness that has naivete on the one hand and a mature understanding of life on the other. Yair was born on Valentine’s Day, Tu B’Av 5738, and was a child whom he loved. His name is called Avraham Yair. Abraham in the name of his father’s grandfather, and he stated that “he was destined to enlighten us on his way.” And so it was. From an early age and throughout his 21 years of life, the light and warmth of Yair’s manner left a deep impression on everyone who came his way. Yair grew up in Moshav Bnei Ram and knew the nature, the fields, the expanses and orchards. In the moshav he traveled and played, and always resulted in joy, breaking through barriers and a wonderful love of man. The brilliance of his big black eyes and his broad smile were the heart of every man they knew. He had always loved children and children since his early childhood, and he never seemed to walk alone on the paths of the moshav. He was always led by a group of children who waited yearningly for his words. He began his studies at the elementary school at Kibbutz Chafetz Chaim, where he stood out for his many talents and leadership skills. The main activities in the afternoon were hiking in the fields of the moshav, sports, computer games and watching television. The walks in the moshav fields ignited Yair’s fertile imagination, and he managed to turn every trip into an exciting adventure of new revelations. Yair was always in great physical shape, and like in every other area of his life, so was sports, he was versatile in the various sports he loved, such as basketball, soccer, tennis, biking and swimming. During these years, Yair’s spiritual image was shaped as a child with high moral values, with a developed sense of justice, and a favorite of both children and adults. The Land of Israel, the people of Israel and the Torah of Israel were his guiding light. Throughout his childhood, he traveled with the family on many trips and trips to various sites in Israel. He developed curiosity and a desire to visit other sites and experience new experiences at every opportunity, until he learned to know the country from every angle. When he was ten years old, the family went on a two-month trip to the United States, where Yair met amazing natural phenomena that aroused his desire to see and experience more and more. As the youngest child in the family, Yair received infinite love from his entire family and he responded with intense love. He treated his parents with royal respect and was always an advocate for them. The love and admiration that had been lavished on him did not diminish his good qualities and he remained humble, generous and kind. After graduating from the kibbutz, he continued his high school studies in the first class of the Yeshiva High School for Environmental Education in Mitzpeh Ramon. At the yeshiva he absorbed the values of love of the land and love of man, of openness, sensitivity and acceptance of the other and the other. During these years, Yair became acquainted with the Land of Israel and especially with the desert and its secrets, and he knew all the paths and paths in the desert as if they were spread out on his palm. During these years Yair gained knowledge and skill in navigation, which greatly benefited him in his trips, and later in his military service as well. During these years, he acquired many friends, whose contact with them grew closer to his last day, and he knew how to love each friend separately and unite them all into one group. At his own initiative, it was decided to establish a nucleus of the group, called the “core nucleus”, and its future purpose was to settle in the Mitzpeh Ramon region of the Negev and establish an agricultural farm there. Yair’s love for the springs led him to discover a number of hidden springs in various sites in Israel. Yair loved the springs, dipped them and even exposed and rehabilitated a number of springs and renewed the flow. In his love of water sources and the need to preserve them, Yair caught up with his friends. During the summer vacation of a classThe family traveled to England, where Yair was given a different kind of experience, such as driving a cruise ship, hiking in nature in a different atmosphere, and visiting museums and theater performances. During the summer vacation he went to London, stayed there with his mother for a few weeks, initiated leisure trips with friends and even studied English, and during those years he set up additional challenges and specialized in special sports. In the twelfth grade, Yair participated in the eighth program for development towns in the city of Acco, where he taught at the Bnei Akiva youth movement, ‘. He knew many families there and left his mark on them. At the same time, he prepared for his matriculation exams in the physics track and successfully passed all the tests. In Acre, too, Yair implemented his principles of investing in friends and touring the country with them. So he bought him more friends, whose soul was inextricably linked to his soul. After completing his high school studies, Yair studied for several months in the religious preparatory course in Eli, and later in the Nokdim Yeshiva, and continued traveling the length and breadth of the country throughout the year. Two of his friends were in Turkey for about a month, and this trip was a special and challenging adventure trip, and he documented an instructive journey that Yair and his friends wrote during the trip. His ambition was to serve a combat service in Lebanon, which he saw as both an important challenge and the height of his potential contribution as a soldier. After completing his training course, he left the course for the Sayeret Matkal commando unit and joined the combat unit of the Sayeret Matkal, and after completing training he completed another training course and completed a course in one of the elite units of the IDF In the course of the team’s founding, Yair contributed greatly to his social and professional development, and like every other station in his life, he also gathered friends who loved him and appreciated his work. A petition that made his vacations a source of challenges and pleasures for him and his friends He took advantage of one of his vacations during the past year for a diving course in Eilat, and wherever he went, he gathered good friends around him, and his sense of humor and spontaneity was an object of admiration for everyone Who was on his way, always tried to make everyone happy, to give a hand and to smile, and Yair was always a light to everyone – to his extended and extended family and to his many friends On Friday, March 15, 1999, Tal Shahar, Yair was critically injured in a road accident, and died of his wounds at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. He was twenty-one years old when he fell. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents and three sisters. Yair was promoted to the rank of sergeant after his death, and his family wrote: “Yair at his death ordered us to continue to live what he lived. To continue the joy, to continue the smile, to continue the tremendous love, to continue the infinite goodness that emanated from him. RELATED TO Yair Forever We continue with the hope that his charming light, strength and courage will continue to accompany us and illuminate our path. His memory will not be used forever. Engraved on our hearts, carried Yair to our last day on earth. “In memory of Yair a number of memorial projects were erected: Gan Yair, which was establishedMoshav Bnei Ram in planning and assisting the family. The garden is enchanted with a grove of trees and unique amusement facilities and is a magnet for children in the area. The Ma’ayanot Yair organization, whose goal is to expose and rehabilitate the flow of springs that were blocked, was established by Yair’s friends. The rehabilitation of the springs is done by groups from various schools, as educational activities that contribute to the environment. Rabbi David Avihail, the head of the yeshiva for environmental education in Mitzpeh Ramon, devoted a book on faith to the memory of Yair, “The Old Man.”
