Groch, Ziv (Zivi)
Ben Ilana and Ilan. He was born on September 11, 1965 in Kibbutz Galil Yam. He is the second son of a family of three. He studied elementary school at his kibbutz and at the regional school in Ramat Hakovesh, continued in the Ein Hasharon junior high school and completed his studies in electronics at the ORT regional high school in Kibbutz Shefayim. His friends in the kibbutz testified that he was a great man. His name was like “Ziv and Nahara were spilled on his face.” Ziv was conspicuous in his seriousness, his thoroughness, and his cordial and radiant personality. A modest, honest, reliable and quiet man. The proximity of his kibbutz to the seashore naturally brought the young people of the kibbutz to surf. Ziv was in charge of the Navy and here he was outstanding. His relations with his family were close and warm. According to his parents, Ziv was a very dominant son who worried, encouraged and supported the entire family. He had deep ties of love with his girlfriend Liat. At the end of January 1984, Ziv was recruited to serve in the Israel Defense Forces and volunteered for a pilot course, where he served as an operations officer and joined an elite helicopter squadron Ziv was an excellent crewman and fighter. A talented officer, very diligent, thorough, caring and responsible and an excellent navigator. He was highly motivated and had good operational thinking. “At the end of six years of service, he debated whether to continue his military career or fulfill his ambition and to pursue higher studies, and was chosen for a track for outstanding officers, combining high studies with continuing to fulfill vital roles in the air force. On December 13, 1990, Ziv fell in the course of his mission in a Cessna plane crash that crashed near his landing, with three pilots and an operational officer, who was laid to rest at the cemetery in Kibbutz Galil Yam, aged twenty-five. Left behind by his parents, sister Dalit, and brother of Afik In memory of a tree in the forest of the Jewish National Fund, his family published a booklet and a tape in his memory.
