Gal (Gelman), Reuven

Son of Avraham and Fanny. He was born in Argentina in 1946. He completed his elementary studies in his home country and began to study there in high school, where he immigrated to Israel in 1963. In August 1964 he was drafted into the IDF and served in the navy. In the Six Day War, he was part of the “Crocodile” INS team, which operated near the enemy shore, and then volunteered for submarine service and was ordained as a sniper in late June 1967. Reuven was sent to England and joined the Dakar submarine crew, but when she was already on her way home Gibraltar, was cut off and was no longer renewed on 24 January 1968. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel ruled that the date of Reuven’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was the 29th of Tevet 5726 (January 30, 1968), since Reuven was one of the missing members of the team, he was placed with a memorial monument in the memorial to the people of Dakar in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. On December 28, 1999, at the end of several years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 m on the path of the voyage Planned and 250 miles from Haifa port. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.