Hadar (Dahan), Michael
Son of Yosef and Esther. He was born in 1950 in Sapi, Morocco, where he immigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied at the Aharon Elementary School in Kiryat Shmuel, and then, after completing his studies there, studied at a vocational school in Haifa. He was a member of HaPoel Kiryat Haim and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, and was gifted with a personal charm that was unique in his modesty and quietness, Who served in the navy, visited the ships and submarines of the navy, and his brother asked one of the members, who was then serving in the “crocodile” to tell Michael what was going on in the submarine. The result was that when he enlisted in May 1962 he volunteered for the submarine, and his parents worried about him and feared him, but Michael knew how to calm them down by saying that each soldier was in the same danger and preferably in a place where he found interest. One of his friends told his brother one day: “I feel your brother is next to me. Michael joined the navy’s career service and was ordained as a sniper in November 1967. He was considered a dedicated diver who always tried to learn and advance in his profession, and as a result of his perseverance he reached a senior position in the Dakar submarine. He returned to England, but when the submarine returned to the port of its home and was on the water route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with it was cut off, and it was no longer renewed, on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968) The date of Michael’s death, in the course of carrying out his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Since Michael was one of the missing members of the team Distended him monument within a monument to the people “Dakar” which the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Navy commander wrote a letter of condolences to his parents, among other things: “Michael was a professional, a quiet and humble man and was liked by the staff, superiors and subordinates alike. He excelled in the excellent control of his subordinates in the charm of his personality … “In the book” The Trees Cut Down “in memory of the residents of Kiryat Haim, whose pages were dedicated to him, he was commemorated by Eran Shorer” On 28.5.1999, at the end of several years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the Mediterranean Sea floor at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.
