Levi, Daniel (“Danny”)

Son of Shalom and Sarah. He was born on Sunday, 15.10.1947, in Kibbutz Hulata, where he grew up and was educated in Hulata and was the most prominent and kind person in his class, and he completed his studies at Ein Harod as part of the children’s company there. And was the center of social activity among the members of the kibbutz, he was full of love of life and full of humor and outwardly showed cynicism and jest, but inside he was sensitive, gentle and serious, and when he completed his elementary studies he continued his high school studies in Hulata. Danny was drafted into the IDF in November 1965, he chose the harder route and volunteered for the naval commando unit. He soon became, for example, stubbornness and willpower, which helped him overcome the physical difficulties of unit training and thus became a member of the ranks of the glorious and daring units. Danny was not a fighter and hated the war, but he went out with pride and fought with his will. In mid-May 1968 he joined the career army. Light on the day of the Ba’al 5770 (July 20, 1969), he fell in one of the fiercest and daring battles of the IDF on the island of Green in the Gulf of Suez. Was brought to eternal rest in Hulata. The next day, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan eulogized Daniel and his friends, saying, “Such sons, who live this way, are fighters, and that’s how dead are the most wonderful thing we have in our lives – in our lives as parents, as friends and in the life of Israel as a nation. The dream of reality – the reality of independence, of the homeland, of Jerusalem, of the settlement of the mountain and the desert, of water and of trees and flowers – but also a reality of blood, Of victims, of funerals, of bullet-riddled bodies, who return to us at dawn, are carried on stretchers, and all we have left is to embrace them to our hearts, “And the Defense Minister concluded his eulogy:” The parents of the sons who fell in the war! Not to console, but to be with you in mourning. We are here, to be in mourning. It’s together – with all Lev and soul! ” The commander of his unit wrote to the family in a letter of condolence: “Only a handful of the fighters were volunteers, and Danny was among them – it was not the only battle he had participated in and excelled at, We know that there is no consolation in words, just as you certainly did not know tranquility and tranquility as parents, who realized that their son had emerged and volunteered for the hardest of tasks Whether in training or in combat, but this model of Danny is a foundation for Israel’s security and a source of pride Minister of where you can find solace “. On the first anniversary of his death, Kibbutz Hulata published a pamphlet in his memory bearing his name.