Fine, Ilan

Son of Yerachmiel (Romek) and Ruth. Was born on May 11, 1952, in Paris, where his parents were on a mission. When he was about three years old, in 1950, the family returned to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the Carmel High School and completed his studies at the Alliance high school in the real world. And his talent in the real professions was very sensitive to Yaffa literature and he devoted himself to reading for many hours, and Ilan liked sports and practiced and competed in light athletics in the framework of Hapoel Tel Aviv. Ilan was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1970 and volunteered for the Air Force. He successfully met the many challenges that the pilot’s course poses to his students, and at the end of the course he wore a navigator’s wings and was assigned to a Phantom squadron. Ilan’s path in the corps, as a man and as a fighter, was highly appreciated by his commanders and friends. His commanders praised him as “a serious officer with achievements and potential for promotion, responsible, serious and acceptable to his friends.” The stubbornness, the quiet, the striving for perfection that characterized him in every way, were also expressed in the Yom Kippur War, in which he participated in dozens of dangerous and highly complex missions. In his opinion on his activities during the war, he stated: “Fight in the best possible way, fighting correctly and well, while showing courage and devotion to the mission.” In the war and after it, too, he did not hint, tell or boast about what he did. Quiet and smiling, as usual, he tried to calm his family and to minimize and eliminate the dangers. Ilan’s strong desire to learn and expand horizons led to son of-Gurion University benches in the special preparatory program for the IAF. On 13.3.1975, Ilan fell in the course of his duties as a pilot, was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind his parents and two brothers in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family. The latter was both a flight instructor and an operational navigator in his unit. He was recently also converted to a helicopter in a crash course and was very successful there. All his friends, friends and apprentices remember him as a good-hearted fellow, quiet and devoted to work and his friends. “Ilan was a very good navigator, and more than that, his progress continued all the time. He was characterized by stubbornness, quiet, and strong self-motivation. I saw him as a man and a warrior, as I wanted him to educate others. “In the booklet” In Memory of Them, “published by son of-Gurion University of the Negev in memory of its students,