Eyal, Itai
Son of Yael and Moshe. He was born on April 14, 1965 in Ramot Hashavim. Until the fifth grade he attended elementary school there. In 1974 the whole family went on a mission to France. He continued his elementary studies at the Moshe Sharett School in Paris, where he returned to Israel in 1978. He completed his high school studies at the Katznelson High School in Kfar Saba and successfully passed the matriculation exams. Itai loved animals very much, and during his high school years he worked regularly in a veterinarian’s office. Riding was one of his hobbies, and his dream was to study veterinary medicine after his military service. A boy of “flowers and birds” was with me until his recruitment. And a constant smile on his lips. He gave him a relaxed atmosphere and the words “will be fine” and “nothing” were in his regular lexicon. In his enlistment he saw fulfillment of his personal-national duty. He did not have any special ambitions in the framework of his military service. In August 1983, I was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the Engineering Corps, and after completing an officer’s course he volunteered for the IAF’s Bomb Squad, and on May 17, 1985, he fell with me in the Rift Valley near Eilat. In the military section of the cemetery in Ramot Hashavim, parents and siblings put it in a condolence letter sent by the commander of the unit to the family: “… we felt that he was radiating love to those around him … a man full of joy of life, willing to help and loved everyone … In doing what he did, he urged him to join us in volunteering for the Engineering Corps’ bomb disposal unit. “Itai’s family published the book” Flowers on the Marble “and his memory was also commemorated by Bass Priya was named after him at the Kfar Sava High School where he received annual prizes for students in biophysics at the high school in Kfar Sava, in a study room and library in Ramot Hashavim, and at the monument on the western border with Egypt Who fell with him
