Lans, Ofer

Ofer, son of Ruth and Dan, was born on January 7, 1949, in Kibbutz Beit Alpha, where he completed his elementary studies at the kibbutz school, and later graduated from the Beit Alpha educational institution. “Hashomer Hatzair” was an active member of the kibbutz, and from an early age he had a strong love for animals, which was expressed in collecting animals and building various facilities for their living quarters. Ten was the champion of the state in swimming, and Ofer liked to listen to music and took an active part in it, and when he was sixteen and seventeen he was a member of the orchestra son of The kibbutzim, and after graduating from high school, Ofer went on a training course as part of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in the Jaffa branch where he worked with youth from a different social class and learned how to live in the city, especially in its suburbs. Armored Corps. After basic training, he paid a course for tank commanders, a course for officers and a course for armored corps officers. He was later assigned to the unit as a tank commander. Before he was sent to the officers’ course he managed to serve as an instructor in a tank training course, where he spent most of his military service in the Suez Canal, where he completed his War of Attrition. Throughout his service, Ofer was considered an outstanding soldier and a talented commander, and therefore his commanders saw a need to persuade him to go to an officers’ course and serve in the IDF as an officer, even though he did not want to, and preferred to return quickly to his kibbutz and civilian life. He returned to Kibbutz Beit Alpha and returned to work in the aquaculture industry where he worked before leaving for military service. It was his main animal-related hobby, and he had grown a dog, a spike, and various vermin in his room In the battle that took place on the 9th of Tishrei 5734 (9.10.1973) in the southern sector, during the Yom Kippur War, In front of the Tigris Strait, the tank of dirt was hit by an enemy missile and he was killed, brought to rest in the cemetery in Beit Alpha, leaving behind parents and brothers.