Gantman, Yaroslav (Slava)

Ben Ella and Yevgeny. He was born on the 7 th of Tishrei 5744 (7.10.1983) in the city of Rogachev, Belorussia, in the Soviet Union, a smiling and intelligent child who loved to play chess, and his parents died in 1997 and died three years later. In May 2001, when he was seventeen years old, Selva immigrated to Israel, arrived in Kiryat Yam and was adopted by his uncle, his brother, Gadi, and his father, , And his aunt Jeanette and became a brother to their children – Yael and Vedim: “Before his mother passed away, she wrote me a moving letter and told me that she had two rich brothers, Na can give them her son, and believes that only my husband and I will give Salva a warm home, we will love him and educate him to values. I called her and told her that Slava was like a son to us. We have been attached to him and to them throughout the years. Even when we immigrated to Israel and they stayed in Russia, there was a warm connection. “Slava completed his studies, successfully passed his matriculation exams and on 13.5.2002 enlisted in the IDF. After completing basic training in the “Hawa Alon” camp, he was placed in the IAF and took a course in fire fighting at the Uvda base. At the end of January 2003, Salva was transferred to a fire station at the BTA 8. Salva was fluent in three languages ​​- Russian, English and Hebrew – he liked to play around, laugh and spend time with his friends, never saying “I’m hard” or “I can not “He always stood in time, dressed carefully, always happy and willing to help, work and invest in every mission, never willing to be replaced before he finished his job. 2004 Salva and his fellow pilots participated in the wedding of his friend in the unit Salva was very excited about the wedding, because it was his first wedding in Israel. And he sang very well at the wedding, danced all evening, and made a happy performance at the end of the event, on April 16, 2004, when Selva made his way to his home in Kiryat Yam, was hit by a passing vehicle and killed Sergeant Jaroslav (Slava) To be laid to rest in the Tzur Shalom cemetery and he is twenty-one years old, leaving behind uncles and cousins.