Elisha, Raphael (“Rafi”)
Son of Yehuda and Hannah. The father is one of the founders of the “Makashar” cooperative in Jerusalem and the mother of the fourth generation of the Rabbis and Gadolah Torah family. He was born on the 27th of March, 1936. From childhood he was quiet and self-contained, and his soul was rewarded and a creative mind lay within him. He admired the beauty and soul of the artist who lived there, nourished by the beauty of the world. He completed his elementary studies at the Ma’aleh religious school and his high school studies – in the real track – in the same school. During his stay in Jerusalem he was active in the “Scouts” movement in the “Masuot” tribe. He was in the act of playing and saw everything in the picture. The first stop on his way to the air force was his membership in the club for youth in Jerusalem; In 1954 he joined the Israel Air Force and completed a pilot course with great success, and after completing his army service as a combat pilot with the rank of lieutenant, he also participated in the Sinai Campaign in this capacity. At the time he was not required, he went on many flights, but the art was in his blood and soul, and after graduating from the army, he began studying at the Bezalel School of Art, where one year of studies brought him to a professional recognition of the art of painting and sculpture. For a while he worked as a pilot in a spray plane of the company “Sea Air” and then moved to the airline “Arkia”, Ash He was promoted to the rank of captain, although he served as a captain during his reserve service in the army, and was able to devote himself to reading books from various books (novels, plays, poetry, criticism and airplane literature). In writing poems, stories, etc. In 1964 he enrolled in Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities with a unique combination of art, theater and philosophy, in which he excelled, showed his diligence and yet was modest and quiet and did not boast of words. At the university he had acquired many friends who admired and admired him, for his pleasant girlfriend was loved by them. He passed the B.A. in the theater department. Visited the United States in 1964 and was then 28 years old, and his letters from there criticizing the Americans and their customs reveal his watchful eye and personality, and in June 1967 he was about to take the final exam in philosophy, but here came the Six Day War and as a pilot participated in the bombing of the Egyptian Armored Corps in Sinai And on the first day of the battles, on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he successfully carried out three sorties and the fourth mission was to hit the positions of Umm Qatif, west of Nitzana. But in the late afternoon, as he dived over the enemy’s armor, his plane was hit by fire and the radio machine picked up his other words Nim said coolly exemplary: “I was hurt. I lost the controls. I’m falling. Shalom “was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a scholarship named for Yoram Harpaz was awarded and will be awarded annually (for a period of ten years) to an outstanding student of the P. Holtz School of Technology in Tel Aviv “In memory of seven students of the university in Tel Aviv (and Rafael among them) and one of its employees, a scholarship fund was established on behalf of the president of the university and its benefits were awarded in the name of each of the eight who fell in the Six Day War. Holtz in Tel Aviv – “Sadan” – was mentioned, and part of his estate was brought in “Gogli Esh”, Volume 4 is a satchel of the estates of the fallen sons KESHER ISRAEL.
