Harpaz (Zandberg), Yoram

Son of Yehoshua and Fela. Born in Tel Aviv on January 22, 1942, he completed his studies at the Bilu School in Tel Aviv, as well as the high school studies at the Municipal High School A. He was a member of the Gadna Air Brigade from the age of fourteen and also belonged The pilot flew to Tel Aviv at the Tel Aviv airport, and was very interested in building models of airplanes and airplanes, and he read professional literature on this subject and after graduating from high school he took a pilot course in Gadna-Air. One of the outstanding students. When he was drafted into the IDF in August 1960, he knew where he would go and what he wanted to do, he knew the difficulties of flying a pilot and was ready for them, and even encouraged other friends in difficult times. He was born at the airport somewhere in Israel and is very Simcha to see that his ambitions were realized when he became a civilian pilot after his discharge from the army and decided that his goal was “El Al “His young wife helped him and encouraged him to do so even though he initially encountered difficulties in adapting any fighter pilot Met with them when he went on a transport flight, but he was never stubborn, quick but not impulsive, generous but not extravagant, and above all a patriot without a hint of arrogance. The first of the battles, on the 6th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), fell in the south of the country with his plane, leaving a wife, and almost a year later his body was found and his bones were transferred to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. The “Holz” High School (“Amal”) held a ceremony to award scholarships to outstanding students at the school in memory of two years from the pilots No – Raphael Elisha and Yoram Harpaz; The scholarships, as stated, were first distributed on 26 Iyar 5728 and were set for a period of ten years. The leaflet of the students of the L and P. Holtz High School was mentioned. His name was immortalized in the journal of the El Al workers.