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Feuchtwanger, Amir (Aharon-Meir)

Feuchtwanger, Amir (Aharon-Meir)


Son of Gavriel and Tamar. He was born on March 30, 1946 in Kiryat Motzkin. He studied elementary school until the third grade at the “Achdut” elementary school where he was born and completed his studies at Bialik School in Kiryat Bialik. Afterward, he studied at the “Sammat” vocational school in Haifa where he studied design and planning, and completed his studies there. His years of studies were years of happiness and success. Amir had many hobbies: woodwork, model-building of wood and cardboard. The technique always attracted his Lev. He built a crystal radio, an internal telephone and a transistor radio. He liked to collect stamps, too. At a young age, he continued to paint and won prizes in competitions for children. Then he moved away from the painting and found expression in the photograph. Here, too, he combined art with technique: he built the magnifying glass with his own hands. He loved music and especially classical music. From the age of 16 he no longer wanted to burden his parents financially, so he found various works for him: “drawings for factories, drawing signs, and in the evening he gave private lessons. He loved others and had an inner need to help him. He had a warm sense of humor. In spite of the responsibility with which he referred to life was full of fresh youthful spirit and acts of prank. In July 1964, he was drafted into the IDF, and Amir gave up his candidacy for the academic reserves in order to “ventilate” shortly before continuing his studies at the Hebrew University of Haifa, where he enlisted in combat engineering and after basic training fell ill and became satisfied with this position. After his discharge from the IDF in August 1966, he was admitted to the Technion. His first year at the Faculty of Architecture, which was not completed, was a year of happiness. In the wake of the Six-Day War, Amir was called to the flag, and while he was working to rescue the wounded in a battle near Jenin, the caterpillar was injured The commander of the company’s commander, who found Amir, and he died on the second day of the battles, on the 26th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), and was brought to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa. In the name of “Amir.” His name was immortalized in the booklet “Engineering Fighters in their Heroism,” published by the Engineering Company in the “Barak” format and in the “Heroes of the Barak” Zer Golan was also mentioned in the memoir published by his teachers in Kiryat Bialik and the Technion, and in the “Ma’alot” quarter of the teachers of high schools, a report was written about him. From his estate he was brought to the “Gogli Esh”, Volume 4, the Yalkut of the sons of the fallen soldiers of Israel

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