Son of-Shmuel-Boaz and Tzila. He was born on 7 May 1947 in Tel Aviv and studied at the Moria religious elementary school and at the Municipal High School B. He was an avid sports enthusiast and played soccer, basketball and table tennis, and was a devoted and loving son to his parents and family. Meir was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1965 and served as a religious symbol in the IDF camps, and in the last year of his service he began his evening studies at Bar-Ilan University, where he was discharged from regular service. The roles entrusted to him with dedication and efficiency, while showing initiative and responsibility. “After his release he continued his day studies He was active in the university and was elected as a member of their committee and as a member of the local council, he continued his sports activities, was responsible for the sports activities of the Student Union and served as treasurer of the Religious Students’ Union in Israel. Bar-Ilan to the National Sports Organization (ASA), the National Student Union and the First World Conference of Religious Students, held in Av 5729. At the beginning of October 1969, he went to active reserve duty, but as he was one of the organizers of the second “kapot” organized by the Religious Students’ Union near the Western Wall on Motzaei Simchat Torah, he was given leave to participate. After midnight, at the end of the “Hakafot”, he left Jerusalem on his way to the Golan Heights – his place of service. On his way from Jerusalem he was injured and on the following day, on the 6th of Tishrei 5710 (October 6, 1969), he died. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. His commander wrote to his family in his letter of condolence: “Although this was his first service in the reserves, we remember him well from his regular service, out of contact in his role as a symbol of religion. I was also told that in his devotion to the army he was also a devoted son to his parents and we understand the enormity of the loss, the pain and the sorrow. We, the commanders and soldiers of the unit, share in your great mourning and remember it Hand as we knew it. So will figure before our eyes. ” In a memorial ceremony held at the university, the Rector, Professor H. Fish, said: “Meir was one of the outstanding young men whom Bar-Ilan University boasts, and as is often the case, Although I did not know him very much, I was impressed by the times when I had the opportunity to sit with him – and I can testify that there was a combination of the Yaffa qualities of the religious and intelligent youth we wanted to raise in Israel and teach at Bar-Ilan University. He was also open, very cheerful, full of public activity and amateurish Verte. ” After the Rector, the late Rabbi S. Auerbach, who was also his teacher of Talmud and Maimonides, spoke at the synagogue where he prayed and said: “In Meir, who participated in classes and his image stands before me, His family in the broad sense of the word – a combination of Torah and knowledge, of joy of life and responsibility, full of virtues. “At the end of his speech, Mr. Alexander Malkiel, the principal of the primary school where Meir studied, said:” Rabbi Meir said:In a jar, but in what is in it, and our light was like a new jar, which was old and fine. From his youth I remember him as shy and small-eyed, and when he left us, he would shine a great poverty in the full sense of the word. “The student union named a room in his name at the student house at Bar-Ilan University, and in the student newspaper” Daughter of Kol “, which was published about a month after his death, his name was mentioned and included An article about his memorial service.
