Kushnirski, Alexei

Ben Marina and Iliya. He was born on May 27, 1985 in Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel with his parents and sister Alona in August 1990. In the early years, the family lived in Kibbutz Na’an, where Alexei Alex began his elementary school studies In 1993, the family moved to Ashdod and in 1998 she moved to Nes Ziona, where he continued his studies at the Amirim elementary school in the city and completed her studies at the Shevah Mofet High School in Tel Aviv. Alex was a talented student, interested in Hebrew and Bible, loved to read, practiced in a gym and was part of the swimming team in Ness Ziona. He was a creative person, loved to paint, and with great talent wrote poems and stories, including the song “Maybe – Not a Love Song”: “And I will love your lips because I have the right to kiss you from her. I will love you and your beauty. I will not give up just to be with you and keep the same thoughts in my head because I hope that maybe I can not hurt and forget only this time maybe love. ” At the age of fifteen he joined the “Rocky Horror Show” in Israel. He was a member of the “Holocast” cast and participated in plays that took place at the Kochav Cinema in Ramat Hasharon. At the end of November 2003, Alex enlisted and expressed a strong desire to serve as a fighter and defend the state. He was stationed in the armored corps and served in the 82nd Battalion of the 7th Brigade – first as a gunner and later as a tank commander. As a commander, Alex led his soldiers in intensive operational activities in the Gaza Strip, participated in the defense of the northern and Golan Heights, and took part in ongoing security and operational activities on the Lebanese border. On the 58th Independence Day of the State of Israel, Alex was declared commander of an excellent company tank. His commanders and comrades in the company greatly appreciated him and said that it was important for him not only to be a commander but also an educator. Alex was a serious and quiet commander, conspicuous in modesty and humility, displaying daring and the ability to command and lead. One of his crew members said: “Alexei was a serious commander, very intelligent, meticulous to the smallest details, a commander I trusted with his eyes closed, and he never agreed to give up his principles.” Alex had four months to serve in the army. He planned to study mechanical engineering, marry his fiancée Shir and rent an apartment with her in Tel Aviv. On the 12th of Tammuz 5766 (July 12, 2006) Alex stayed at the “Nurit” outpost and carried out an overlap prior to assuming his position as a tank commander’s guide. On the morning of the same day, Hezbollah attacked northern Israel, ambushed an IDF force and kidnapped two reservists – Sergeant Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser and First Sergeant Eldad Regev – And when they were at the nearest post to the scene, the crew was ordered to enter Lebanon and stop the terrorists’ escape vehicle.The crew found it difficult to reach the tank due to the heavy bombardment, but with tremendous effort and insistence the crew arrived at the tank. To shoot and hit a number of Hezbollah positions at the time of entering Lebanon, but a very short distance from the border Hezbollah’s flagship “flagship” outpost, the tank mounted on a large ground bomb, the tank was destroyed and the four crew members, including Alex, were killed, and First Sergeant Yaniv Bar-On, First Sergeant Shlomi Yirmiyahu and First Sergeant Gadi First Sergeant Alexei Kushnirski was twenty-one years old when he fell, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Na’an, leaving his parents and sister.