Dahan, Uri

The youngest son of Chana and David, was born on the 7th of Cheshvan 5706 (November 3, 1954) in Tel Aviv. Ori began studying at the Tachkemoni elementary school in Tel Aviv and continued to study at Ironi Hey High School, also in Tel Aviv. After two years, he stopped his studies and tried the kibbutz route. He came to Kibbutz Beit Alpha, worked and studied there, and graduated from high school. Uri was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of November 1972 and was assigned to the Engineering Corps. With his unit Uri passed through the Yom Kippur War in peace. After he was discharged from the army, Uri was hired to work in a printing press and at the same time dealt with youth in distress, and he organized sports and social activities for them and tried to keep them away from the street. Uri played soccer and basketball. For five years Uri worked as a counselor at the Beit Hadar boarding school in Havatzelet Hasharon, where he gave the children the warmth and love they had not received in their homes, and spent all his salary buying candy and toys for his proteges. Every year Uri was called to reserve duty in a infantry battalion, and his commanders described him as “comfortable, kind and tolerant, thinking and giving to others, not resentful, a guy easy to manage with and comfortable with.” Uri smiled a lot, took good things without hostility, without competition, with cooperation, friendship and good spirit. He had to deal with difficulties and problems himself, not blame, responsibility or pain on others. During the war for the Galilee, Uri was called to reserve duty. Twice he returned unharmed. For the third time, two and a half months after his father’s death, on April 29, 1983, Sergeant Uri fell in combat in Lebanon and was buried in the military cemetery in Holon. He left behind a mother, brother, and sister. In a letter of consolation to the family, his commander wrote: “In many respects, Uri was the soul of the company … He was undoubtedly the most sympathetic and sympathetic person of all of them … His good temper, the almost eternal smile and his friendly, warm and friendly style brought him within a short period of time to be a pillar Most prominent and important members of the company.” The family published a booklet in his memory, “Uri”, with a description of his short life and his great work.