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Litani, Oren

Litani, Oren


Ben Sarah and Jacob. He was born on August 9, 1973 in Haifa. He grew up in Kiryat Ata, where he studied at the “Yavne” elementary school and the “Shaham” junior high school. When he reached ninth grade, Oren decided to change course and went to study at the Air Force Technical School. After a year he changed his mind, remained in a military framework, and moved to the Armaments Corps school, “Amel Shimshon”, at the Golani Junction, where he studied automotive mechanics. During this period began to crystallize his love for motorcycles and all his energy invested in this hobby. He took out a driver’s license, worked on vacations, saved money and bought a 50 cc motorcycle, and when he reached the age of fifteen until his last year of life, he spent the Passover holiday at the Auto Motor Show in Tel Aviv to watch new motorcycles and cars and get a closer look. He learned to love cars as well, thanks to the direction he learned and the tools he received from his mechanic father, he bought a subscription to the journal “Moto” and read it carefully, to the point of learning it by heart. Even when his mood was at a low ebb, the smile never left his face, a diligent and meticulous workman who loved his profession and devoted himself to it He was always surrounded by many friends, invested in them and showed caring, and everyone knew that Oren had “golden hands,” helping them with love and enthusiasm in his modest way and humility. And underwent basic military training at the Nitzanim base. There was no doubt in his mind that he would continue to serve in the base he had studied, but this was not helped and he was posted to Ein Ovdat in the south. Oren did not accept the fact, and immediately put pressure on him to move and serve in the Northern Command. His efforts have borne fruit and he has been assigned to serve in the armored personnel unit of the Samson Regional Ordnance Ordnance Corps, where he began his studies as a student, and he began to serve as a second level mechanic, demonstrating diligence, initiative, responsibility and improvisation. “Oren accepted, and at the end of November 1994 he began his career in the regular army, and in his first year in the army he acquired” Stage 10 “and served as the head of a work team, He showed great professionalism and management ability and was promoted to the rank of second level officer, and his last wish was to obtain a driver’s license for a heavy freight vehicle Real, would leave a specific course, as a reward for his work in the unit. Eve of Independence Day holiday pine Tsn”h out and planned spending Independence Day. On that day he paid visits to all his friends and did not skip any of his friends, as if he had predicted his departure from them. At midnight, he went to spend time in Tiberias with his girlfriend Liat. On Wednesday, May 4, 1995, Oren was killed in a traffic accident at the entrance to the village of Bir al-Maksur, on the way to the Somekh junction, where the vehicle strayed to the right of the road and crashed into an electricity pole. The “Camp David” military base in Haifa, was almost twenty-two years old and was survived by his parents, brother, Tomer, and sister Ella, who gave a eulogy on his grave: “Oren accompanied us as a student in our school, The Ordnance Corps and the EIIC. Upon completion of the compulsory service chapter, a service performed by him without fault, a permanent signatory. His professionalism and personal level were an example of his friends, a high and reliable work ethic, expressed in his role and personal ability. In his modesty and shyness he bought his name and his friends. His golden hands, his judgment, his intelligence and the creation of a relaxed atmosphere were his strength and as such he was recognized by his comrades in the unit and by his commanders. “Sue wrote: “Oren, as a soldier in the workshop, proved a very high level of professionalism and was promoted to the position of ‘team commander’: The tools he produced were of a perfect finish and aroused admiration – his tools hardly returned to … He kept the department as a permanent man in everything – exemplary order, cleanliness, professionalism … it is customary to praise and idolize a person in his death, but Oren was really like that – he laughed all the time, received good reviews, was full of joy and vigor … The most prominent features of his work and therefore did not like to get a job that someone else started, he used to do his work from A to Z. ” His friends at the base, in cooperation with the education officer, published a booklet in his memory containing lines for his character, poems and letters. They say: “There is no guy who symbolizes more than him a smile, a laugh and a joy of life, always smiling and dismissing with a wave of his hand or a joke that irritates others, always reaching out for help in every situation, even when it’s late, cold, Oren is not lazy, does not make excuses, puts on a thin shirt, enters the small Fiat and drives up to the Carmel, to start a life that has not yet been restored, and without a visible effort and after a few minutes, Oren detects the problem, improves the solution and starts the car. Repair at the garage but wait for the weekend and he will buy parts and fix the car with his ‘giraffe’ at Grandma’s house, where, on his Graz, every Friday, early in the morning, It will be possible to find it digging and burrowing in the engine, from top to bottom and at every angle, every small screw, every wheel and shaft dismantled, repaired, replaced, oiled and returned. Which Oren could not overcome, we did not need this information from his commanders, we saw it and he proved it in his cars, in the cars of his friends and his immediate family, and he did not miss a moment, always on the move, never sitting , Always deals with something, always with plans and projects for the future. … How many times he fell and when he was injured from the plot with the Vespa and the whole leg was in plaster, he did not rest. With a disdainful laugh he laughed at himself, scoffed, and eventually cut himself off and returned to his many occupations. … a tall and beautiful flower – a flower that was picked. “

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