Bula, Hananiah

Son of Menachem-Elyakim and Miriam. He was born in the village of Yavne on June 9, 1946. His father, who was born in Amsterdam, immigrated to Eretz Israel in early 1938 and came to Israel from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. His father’s parents were religious and Zionist, As a teacher at Kibbutz Yavneh and in various schools in Jerusalem until he was appointed head of the Ma’aleh religious high school in Jerusalem, the mother of the Dutch embassy, ​​and his parents’ home, where he received his Torah studies and learned to love Israel and his country. And is ready to offer help to anyone who needs it Hananya studied at the Rabbi Uziel School in Jerusalem until the seventh grade His father moved to Amsterdam as a Jewish Agency emissary during the years 1958-1960 and accompanied him to the mitzva, where he studied at a technical school, and after graduating studied electronics at the ORT school and completed his studies there, even completing some of his matriculation exams. He was very musical and had an evening voice, was drafted into the IDF in January 1964 and was in the Signal Corps until he was accepted to an aviation course, because he loved the artist as an artist before he was recruited and expressed his inclination to build models of airplanes. He went through the difficult course of the course until they wore his wings. But he remained humble, gentle and kind and loved by all his acquaintances. Because of his evening voice, he participated in entertainment programs in the air force. As a pilot, he continued in the regular army and in part went on to participate in the day of fighting known in April 1967, when the air force knocked down the six Syrian MiGs. His commanders testified that in that battle the same spirit of combat and joy had taken hold of him – a sign of his firm self. On the day of the Six Day War he was certain that the eternity of Israel would not lie, and on the first day of the battles, on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (5.6.1967), he fell in an air battle at the airport in Jordan. Two months later his body was found, returned to Israel and brought to Israel’s grave. He was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. After he was killed he was promoted from deputy to deputy. His memory was included in the Yavneh Group’s journal, “From Home.”