Amit, son of Dina and Moshe, was born on August 10, 1951. When he was a child, his family moved to Haifa, where he studied at the Ma’aleh Hacarmel elementary school. Two years in Italy and two years in Brazil, where Amit studied English, French, Italian and Portuguese in English, French, Italian and Portuguese, and returned to Israel at the age of 15, graduating from the Alliance high school, History, and politics, Amit dreamed of a career in diplomacy, he wanted to study these subjects at the university, and was even recommended by his teachers Academic reserve, but he preferred to finish before the military service. Amit inducted into the army in November 1970 and was assigned to the Armored Corps. After completing basic training, he completed a series of courses with honors, including a tank and a tank course, and was successfully sent to the officers’ training course. In mid-May 1973, when he completed his mandatory service, he enrolled in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he worked as a construction worker to save money for his studies. And was indeed one of the first reservists “It is natural for Amit to arrive first,” his comrades said, “during the war he participated in the braking battles against the Egyptians on the Sinai front, and during the fighting on October 17, 1973, his company arrived at the Gidi crossing. A colleague fell in command of a tank company, demonstrating leadership and courage, and being a model of dedication and good friendship to all the soldiers of his company and the commanders of the battalion. Thanks to Amit and others like him, our unit managed to contain better enemy forces who tried to break through our lines on the Gidi axis. “The soldiers who were with a colleague in the tank said:” Amit noticed that an Egyptian infantry was crawling toward our tanks from an invisible area From the tank.) He reported to the headquarters, which at first thought that these were our soldiers, and Amit repeated his hypothesis and said that the situation would be dangerous if the Egyptians came closer, so he left the turret to survey the area. Amit claimed that someone had to do so, and since he was the commander, he had the duty … Indeed, about 250 Egyptian soldiers crawled toward us, Amit found them rising from the turret to his waist and hurling a few bursts of fire at them, and in the opposite fire he received two bullets – one in the mouth and one in the Lev … “Run over them, with tanks!” The same colleague, none of us would have survived, he was killed and the company was saved. ” He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery on Mount Herzl. Survived by father, mother, brother and sister. After his fall, he was promoted to captain. In a letter of condolences to the family, then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote: “A colleague was defined as a good, dedicated, responsible officer with a great deal of professional knowledge, effective and sympathetic to his comrades.”
