Horev, Ehud (‘Udi’)

Son of Shmuel and Esther. Born on April 26, 1957 in Petah Tikva, he grew up in Neve Monosson, was an intelligent, cautious, independent and comfortable-tempered boy who attended elementary school at his home, and at the age of nine and a half went with his parents to Tanzania, Africa Where he was supposed to attend a language school in which his father prepared him, and within five weeks he learned the basics of the foreign language and was prepared to be absorbed into the new environment, which proved both his ability to study and his ability to acquire within a short period of time , The sympathy of friends to the school table.In August 1969 the family returned to Neue Monosson, and Udi returned to his friends without any adjustment difficulties, but he had to replace the social climate from Dash In 1970 the family moved to Jerusalem, and Udi was one of the first students of the “Yad LaMoreh” school in Ramat Eshkol, where he had two main areas of interest: , He found satisfaction in all the work that was related to the technique, and his tendency toward everything related to the technique guided Udi’s parents to enroll him in the ORT vocational school in electronics. Zionist movement in Jerusalem. When the recruitment deadline approached, he enrolled in an IAF course. Udi successfully passed tests for an air-force course. At the beginning of February 1976, he entered the pilot’s school and, for nearly five months, completed his difficult and tense studies. When he finally dropped out, like many others, he refused to remain in the air force as an electron or as a navigator. He insisted that he was in a combat unit. He joined the paratroopers, and in September 1976 he completed a parachuting course. Despite the efforts and tribulations that were part of his life, he was Simcha, proud and proud of belonging to this corps, but the thread of his life suddenly went out. Ehud was killed while carrying out his duties on May 10, 1977, when a helicopter crashed in the Jordan Valley. In this disaster, 54 soldiers were killed. Ehud was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents and two brothers.