Levi, Ofir (Yosef)

Ophir was born in Israel on November 3, 1969. He grew up in Jerusalem. When Ophir enlisted in the IDF in 1988, he served as a vehicle spare parts officer in the Israel Air Force. After his discharge from the IDF, he worked as an Egged bus driver in Jerusalem, and from 2001 to 2001 he worked as a police station and as a security guard, and since 2001 worked in the Jerusalem Police headquarters unit as a driver, a position he was highly respected by his superiors. In 2005, Ophir joined the Israel Prison Service as a bus driver in the Nachshon unit, where he served for more than a year. Afterward, he went to serve in the “Ofer” school, with the transfer of this unit from the IDF to the IPS, where he served as a driver and transportation officer, a task that involved many tasks and responsibility. In the construction of the unit in the logistics aspect, and in the short period in which he served in the prison, he became one of the leading permanent prison guards, and was also one of the social pillars of the unit, and on all of them on December 24, From mission to unit, Sergeant Ophir began unloading merchandise from the vehicle and then collapsed. Medical personnel summoned to the scene tried to revive him, but the attempts failed and he died of cardiac arrest. Thirty-seven years old. He was buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. Survived by a wife – Ilanit, and three daughters – Daniella, Adi and Shani.