Dror, Dan (“Redhead”)
Son of Shalom and Ilana. He was born on February 6, 1945 in Kibbutz Manara. His father, a former member of the kibbutz, was an officer in the Haganah, and later in the IDF, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, who served in the General Staff, and even his mother, one of the first kibbutzniks. He studied at the Institute for Education in writing and prepared for the matriculation exams, and he was active in the kibbutz members’ division and worked in the movement for a group of members of the kibbutz. With a nucleus or a combat force? He was drafted into the IDF in October 1963 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, where he found a wide range of work, and was then taken away from many of his dreams of matriculation exams and medical studies. When he finished the course, he returned to serve in his paratroopers unit as a platoon commander, and when he was discharged from the service he was a lieutenant, while he was preparing for the matriculation exams, Who was always at the head of his soldiers, despite his young age, called his departmental staff, found a common language with them, and indeed gained their trust. On the third day of the battles, he fell in battle for the conquest of the Old City, leaving a wife and a girl (about six months dead) buried in the military cemetery on Mt. And in the 1930s he was taken to eternal rest in the Manara Cemetery.In the thirty days of the fall, Kibbutz Manara published a leaflet in his memory, and on the first anniversary of his death the kibbutz published a booklet entitled “Harim Za’ab” Six days later, lists were brought to his memory, and his biography and description of the last battle were included in the book “Mariyot Gabro” of the Paratroopers Commandment.
