Kahane, Benjamin

Son of Efrayim – Shmuel and Miriam. He was born on 6 March 1911 in Jaffa, studied at the Mikveh Israel agricultural school in the commercial school, and later at the Montefiore Technical School in Tel Aviv. The whole country on a bicycle and then on a motorcycle, and in 1935 he participated with a Beitar delegation, a movement he belonged to, on a motorcycle tour of the Diaspora. During the British Mandate he served as a policeman in the Hebrew settlement police. He was one of the founders of Clow-gliders in Israel and our airline pioneers and was one of the first citizens to receive an aviation license during the Mandatory period; Afterward he devoted all his time and energy to aviation. He was the first volunteer in the Palestine Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. In 1951 he visited Eilat and the place enchanted him until his soul became attached to him and at the beginning of 1956 moved to live there with his family. As an avid amateur lover he fell in love with the fish, shellfish and vegetation in the sea of ​​Eilat and in his idea of ​​the aquarium he began to concentrate the means to establish it – and the results of his work is the aquarium named for him, which is part of the Eilat museum. He was one of the first pioneers of the Israeli Air Force, and when he left for Sinai, he was a captain, fought his war against the enemy from the air, and at Kuntila on the 25th of March, 1956, Courage, courage, and extraordinary heroism, and afterwards, after they fell, he was praised by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Dayan, who was laid to rest in the cemetery in Eilat, and left a wife and three children. To call the park named after him: Gan Binyamin.