Amir, son of Tzipora and Israel, was born on December 27, 1952, in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra, where his parents moved to Tel Aviv and Amir attended the David Bloch Elementary School, She settled in Ashdod and Amir studied there at the Rogozin A Comprehensive High School in the summer of 1970. Amir’s childhood in the Rosh Hanikra farm was short, but it left its mark on him. And many years after he left the kibbutz, he used to visit him and meet with his friends, often saying during conversations with friends: “We are the kibbutzniks …” There is no doubt that his love for Pim, for animals and plants, was acquired at the beginning of his life in the kibbutz, and Amir was a classy student and a social boy. “The candles were lit again as in all the years, but the boys who fell were heroes / can not be forgotten, standing before their eyes,” he wrote in his Hebrew notebook while he was in third grade, . It was not easy to move to the new home of the Cohen family in Ashdod, a developing immigrant town that presented challenges: a new society, an unfamiliar way of life, along with exhausting studies in high school. During this period, the “adaptation period,” as he called it, was forced to reduce the spectrum of its broad activities and even abandoned the hobby of pilots he loved so much. Soon, however, his attempts at union with the Ashdod boys began to bear fruit. One of Amir’s friends testified at the time of his maturity: “He seems to be an ordinary guy at large, something not special: plump, nice, smiling, one of the guys, but in fact Amir is a whole world. Hide it when it is hidden in the shadow of the noisy gang. ” It was Amir’s singular character lines that attracted him, as a magnetic force, young and old friends. “On Fridays, in the afternoon, the house was full of friends,” said Amir’s mother. Everywhere Amir was, there were friends and joys of life. Amir was an avid sports fan, played basketball and was also a basketball referee. Amir was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of January 1971, and after basic training he asked to volunteer for the air force. However, when he was told that he would be assigned to a ground crew in the air force, he chose to go to the Armored Corps, completed a tank course and graduated cum laude (95). Amir served as a driver and a non-commissioned officer in the tank, took part in a course for tank commanders and a course for armor instructors, and became known as a soldier and a favorite of his subordinates. “To go with everyone, to the lines,” but when he was assigned a mission, he performed it with dedication and efficiency: “Amir was a real fighter,” testified one of his comrades in arms. The days of ‘countdown’, prior to the liberation, “his father says in pain, and Amir took command and took the forces southward to the Sinai front. In the northern sector of the Canal Line, as a NCO tank. In the midst of the battle of containment, on the 8th of Tishrei 5734 (October 8, 1973), Amir felt the need to rescue a unit that was entangled in a battle against the enemy on the Tassa-Ismailia axis, and did not return. It was first declared missing and at the beginning of January 1974 it was decidedAs a space whose burial place is unknown. When his body was identified, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Ashdod. Survived by father, mother and sister. After his fall, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Amir’s friends and friends published a pamphlet containing memoirs and things about his character and his way; The weekly Bamahane published a list of Amir Cohen’s activities during the fighting on the Sinai front.
