Itach, Lior

Son of Rachel and Jonathan. He was born on 25.3.1979 in Ramle. Until age four, he grew up in Lod, a sandwich boy between his older sister Revital and his younger brother Eliran. When he was four, the family moved to Shlomi. Lior attended the Ben-Zvi elementary school and continued on to the junior high school at Kibbutz Kabri. From there he moved to the Mevo’ot Yam school for trainees at Michmoret. After completing his studies at Michmoret, Lior decided to study a profession that was required in a military framework and successfully completed grades 13 and 14 at the Armored Corps base in Zrifin and was certified as mechanical engineer. Lior is always happy to help the community. He volunteered for many years in the Civil Guard in Shlomi and volunteered at the local community center, and was always surrounded by many friends with whom he loved to spend time in clubs, the sea, and soccer. To serve as a mechanic in a tank brigade. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in February 2001. After his compulsory army service, he decided, with the encouragement of his parents, to sign a permanent order and begin building his future, and his commander, Col. Halutzi, told his parents: “Lior was a sociable person and the first to help his friends in times of trouble. Diligence, dedication and thoroughness in which he performed his duties … Due to these qualities, we chose him, his commanders, to continue in the near future in the career army as part of a quality core serving in the brigade. Other – with the sensitivity he showed you, his dear family. ” On September 14, 2001, Lior was killed in a traffic accident on the Nahariya-Shlomi road, and he is twenty-two years old. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Nahariya. Survived by his parents, sister and brother. A friend of Lior from the army, Eti, wrote: “Lior, it’s hard for me to think about you in the past, I look at you in the picture and you smile as usual, and I do not accept that there will not be any more … And so did you, to make happy, to make the guys laugh and all of them with an eternal smile on your face, all these things, Lior, I learned from you and I keep them for myself – for you and me. ” Heli wrote to Lior, her best friend: “Suddenly, in one moment, everything was erased, your smile that emphasized your joie de vivre, and there were only memories and lots of pictures, I was your soulmate and now I feel that part of me has gone with you. In one second you fall asleep? … I hope you are in a good place and you are guarding us from above … The space you filled in my heart has become empty and no one will be able to fill it again. ” Three months after Lior’s death, the family wrote: “Three months without you Lior / The days pass and we will all remember the constant smile on his lips / And the size of his broad heart / The laughter and joy of life / The little seriousness and love of life / Friends were always around him / He was always with him / his military service, and he wanted to serve more and more … A devoted and diligent soldier / for which his commanders / Nantzur testified to the world with us / We will always love you in our hearts. “