Shaul was born on April 15, 1948 in Iraq and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1951. He studied in an elementary school in Holon and later continued his studies at the Holtz High School in Tel Aviv He was an outstanding student, diligent and diligent, and loved his teachers and friends, and was a member of the Scouts movement, and he was very interested in aviation. He spoke thoroughly, with willpower and stubbornness, taking care of every task and meeting any challenge he had set for himself, full of energy, daring and courageous, and excelled in great self-confidence, which had no arrogance but rather He was a loyal and devoted son to his parents and was very respectful to them, and Shaul was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of his life. November 1965, and volunteered to serve in the IAF. After basic training, he took a parachuting course and a navigational course, and in this course he was an outstanding trainee. He served for about six months as a navigator in a transport squadron (on “Nord” planes) and later served as a navigator for Votor planes. He was a member of the career army. For his participation in the war in 1967, he was awarded the “Six Day War”. At the beginning of 1969 he was sent to the United States to study in a course for navigators on Phantoms, and that same year he married his girlfriend Doba. When he returned to Israel, he was one of the first pilots of the “Pantom” squadron, one of its first instructors, and a second lieutenant commander of the squadron. Before him, a pilot in the squadron did not have a senior role. He was a responsible and dedicated officer, took care of his soldiers and was very loved by them. During the War of Attrition, in 1970, he succeeded in landing one of the bases in the southern part of the country a plane that was hit and started to burn. He was preparing to study at the Technion in Haifa, at the electronics faculty, and was already passing the graduation exams for the academic year 1974. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Shaul was sent on operational missions to help curb the enemy forces in the Golan Heights On October 7, 1973, He was attacked by a missile battery in Syria, was hit by enemy fire and killed on the spot, and was given the “Medal of Valor.” “That Lieutenant-Colonel Ehud Hankin z” l was his pilot. On October 7, 1973, they led a structure of Phantoms to attack a missile battery in Syria. During identification, they discovered it in a different location than planned and very close to the plane. However, knowing the importance of the operation, they decided to dive, in order to attack the target. However, because of the descent to the low altitude, their plane was apparently hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed. Lt. Col. Ehud Hankin and the late Captain Shaul Levy discovered courage, coolness and devotion to the action. “At first, Shaul was considered missing, and his body was later identified and brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. He was born after his death and was named after Yaniv Shaul, and after his death he was promoted to the rank of Major After being awarded the Medal of Valor, “The phantom hit and hurt.” On the day of the IAF, 1974, the interview with Shaul, which was supposed to appear in 1970, was published in the evening newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, but parts of it were deleted for security reasons.
