Levi, Yitzhak Ofer

Ben Hanna and Jacob. Born in Tel Aviv on May 5, 1955, he grew up in the Tel Baruch neighborhood, where he was surrounded by a rural environment and Merhavia acquired close friends who accompanied him throughout his life. Ofer was active in the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth football team and devoted his time to music, which filled his entire world and served to support him when he grew up, and in February 1974 he was drafted into the IDF and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade, He did all the compulsory service (and then the reserve service) and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant Organizing international conferences and congresses. All the while, his ambition was to learn from Mrs. Cole in the United States, and he did go to study at the high school of sound in New York and Los Angeles. When he returned to Israel, he was involved in music and vocalization. Ofer was called to reserve duty in January 1989. During this period of reserve duty he fell during his service on 28 January 1989 and was laid to rest in the Kiryat Military Cemetery Shaul sent a condolence letter to the bereaved family: “Ofer volunteered to serve in the paratroopers … After three years of regular service, in which he did his best, he joined the Paratroopers Brigade, Most notably in the heritage of the army and the State of Israel, the liberation of Jerusalem, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War.In 1978, Ofer took part in all the activities He was a ‘bohemian’ type, nonconformist and on the other hand a model soldier, he did not like ‘small’, he did not like discipline, he did not like training so hard, he had a hard time with routine “The music that filled his entire life and the” sound “he had for the profession were foreign to the daily military routine, but at least once In addition to all the other cases we are fortunate enough to learn from, the entire brigade enjoyed these talents when he took part in organizing the paratroopers’ conference, the liberators of Jerusalem (the brigade where he served) 20 years since the liberation of the city. “Ofer was a social man, a ‘sabachak’ who is willing to help, who likes to help, to lend a hand, to put his hand in. Ofer was a real conversationalist, enthusiastic, frankly interested, loving people and how to relate. The sense of responsibility, which was repeated every time, made it difficult for him to leave the unit, even when he felt that “the horse was over.”