Hadar (Horowitz), Avner

Son of Amos and Batya. Born on 10 March 1948 in Nahalal, he studied at the Nahalal School and the Kfar Yehoshua Regional School, and was a member of the Nahalal youth group and participated in various activities organized by it. He devoted special time and extra efforts to studies and was a good Zionist, and went on trips with his friends from the moshavim movement. When he grew older, Avner showed great interest in everything that was going on in the village and lived the life of the country in its entirety. He was drafted into the IDF in early August 1966 and volunteered to serve in the Israel Air Force, believing that the plane was the challenge for Israeli youth and that every talented young man must be a pilot, But since the Israel Air Force began taking part in the War of Attrition, Abner had taken dozens of times to bomb across the border, feeling that the ground soldiers (the infantry and the armored corps) bore the brunt of the war. “To help the people of our outposts prevent fire The Egyptian missile on them. They believed in us and we are the only ones who can help them. “After two years of enlistment he joined the regular army, but he was modest and modest, and after returning from operational activities he used to change his uniform in work clothes and work in the agriculture. In the last period of his life, near the cease-fire, he was involved in both training and operational activity, and these forces exhausted his forces and made him very tired, and on January 3, 1970, Lieutenant Avner fell in the line of duty. In the Nahalal cemetery, the family published a book in his memory.