Ben Shlomit and David. Michael was born in Haifa in the Haifa neighborhood of Neve Sha’anan, where he was a baby with large blue eyes, a look Focusing and listening Mickey began his studies at the Rambam religious elementary school in Haifa. He was a sociable, quick-paced, gold-haired boy. At the end of second grade, the family left Haifa and moved to a new settlement in the Lower Galilee – Mitzpe Netofa. Mickey joined the third grade at the Lavi State Religious School in the Lower Galilee, and was a successful student who liked painting, listening to music and playing clarinet. Miki arrived at the mitzva on Shabbat, parashat “Noach” (haftara “Roni Akera”). In his Bar Mitzvah sermon, he chose to speak of the various alliances – circumcision, the covenant between God and the Land – and he did not know how much he himself would make a covenant of blood with the land. Mickey was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement as an apprentice and counselor. He studied at the “Bnei Akiva” Yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, where he studied physics and computers, because he did not have a high level religious high school in his neighborhood, Reading, sewing and painting, and surfing the Internet Mickey spent four months at the “Heslach” yeshiva of the religious kibbutz in Ma’ale Gilboa, where he left a huge wall painting in his room as a farewell present to his friends. The painting shows a collapsing soldier, wounded in his chest and a hole in his helmet, looking up at a helicopter, which crashes in a scuba dive. At the top of the painting is the word “why” in English and at the end of it is a large question mark and a exclamation mark. From the letters and signs dripping a drop – perhaps a tear, the exclamation point seemed like a memory candle. The mural became a corner of memory for Mickey. Mickey joined the IDF at the end of August 1994 and served in the Nahal Brigade. He completed a track company in the “Granit” battalion. After nine months, he went to the sergeants’ course early, and immediately afterward, he trained recruits in a track company in the “Shaham” battalion. Later, he went to the officers’ course. After a difficult encounter with the engineering company of the Nahal Brigade, he retired from the course and volunteered for the engineering company, the Nahal Brigade, after completing his brief service as a combat soldier with the veteran team of sergeants at the “Pumpkin” outpost in Lebanon. Mickey, who never aspired to a military career, became a highly motivated combat soldier. Every task he was assigned was done with dedication and responsibility. On the evening of the 28th of Shvat 577 (February 4, 1997), the helicopter disaster occurred when two Yasur helicopters collided over Moshav Shear Yashuv. The seventy-three fighters, who made their way to operational activity in Lebanon, were killed, including Mickey, on his way to the “Pumpkin” outpost. Twenty members of the Palmach unit were killed in the disaster, most of them from the senior sergeant corps, where Mickey served at the age of 20. Mickey was the first space of the settlement and his fall required the construction of a cemetery, leaving two parents – my father And Elad and two sisters – Nava and Gili, the eldest daughter of his sister Nava was named after him, Mickey-Chen, and a memorial ceremony was given to the synagogue in Mitzpeh Netofa, a gift from the President of Israel Mr. Ezer Weizman and his wife, On Saturday evening, the topics of the lectures are chosen according to Mickey’s thinking and interests – science, Hebrew literature, thought Israel His relatives established a memorial to Mickey on the land of the family orchards, in the Emek Hefer area, at the Haroeh intersection. The settlement of Mitzpe Netofa decided to commemorate Mickey by reading the synagogue of the settlement called Ohel Michael Synagogue. After the disaster, his family banded togetherAnd established an association for memorial and mutual support purposes, which will establish a memorial to the fallen in the place of the disaster, near the community of Shear Yashuv. Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak wrote to the family: “Michael served as a combat soldier in the engineering division of the Nahal Brigade, and was described by his commanders as a professional soldier who was very motivated and motivated to serve in the army. Commanders and friends alike. ” The commander of the unit where Mickey was serving wrote to the family: “Mickey loved the infantry in general and the Nahal in particular, where he knew the combat doctrine well. When he arrived at the unit from the Granit Battalion, Mickey was discovered to be a very disciplined and high-quality man with a sense of humor who soon became popular with everyone. “
