Har-Even, Zvi (“Mickey”)
Son of Orel and Sylvia. Born in Bucharest, Romania, on June 29, 1946, the family immigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied at the naval officers’ school in Acre and completed his studies there as a mechanic, and he always worked as a student in the School for Marine Officers. His love for and devotion to the future of the sea was also evident in his interest in marine history, and he did not take the routine examinations and as a worthy candidate he was given permission to prepare annual work on the subject: “Battle of Trafalgar – its causes and consequences.” Despite all this, he was modest, he loved truth and moved away from Tziona, he was even capable of him See the truth in the face of a person if it is not Tenami listener. In October 1964, inducted into the army and navy face. Zvi served as a career soldier in the navy, but searched for and found the hard way of service by volunteering for the submarine after being ordained as a submarine in April 1967. In his service in the navy, he served in a training base and in the submarine “Tanin” and “Rahav”. He participated in the Six-Day War in the defense of the coast and then served in the Red Sea area. In November 1967 he was sent to a course in England and was later joined to the “Dakar” team. But on the way, when the submarine returned to the port of the house, being on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with it was severed and again was not renewed; This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Zvi’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968, and he was then a lieutenant. Since Tzvi was among the missing team members, a memorial monument was placed inside him in the memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The commander of the navy wrote to his parents, among other things: “My dear Zvi was a talented and dedicated machine officer, who was connected with the family of divers with all his might and with all his soul. The head of the naval division, Colonel A. Buczer, wrote to his parents in a letter of condolences: “I was not your son’s direct commander … We met as a trainee in the course of captains and in visits to the units where your son served. How proud he was when he took command of an armed ship in the Red Sea, I met him on the ship, Simcha and proud, and commanded an orderly ship with a crew ready to carry out his duties. ” In Eran Shorer’s book, “Six Days in Decker” his memory was immortalized by bringing his picture. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. His burial place is unknown.