Maimon, Uri

Uri, son of Deborah and Eliahu of blessed memory, was born on December 16, 1946. He began his studies at the Reali School in Haifa and completed his high school studies in the real school track, In all the matriculation exams, Ori was a diligent and outstanding student throughout his school years, and was loved by both teachers and students, and he was also ready to help a friend who had difficulty in understanding the material, and took part in organizing parties and celebrations. He was the coordinator of the activities of the student company and was awarded a prize for his excellence in human relations, and since his early youth he was an active member of the Scouts movement. He was a loyal and loyal brother who was Uri, and on the eve of his enlistment in the IDF he was a tall, handsome, dignified and serious man in his approach to life, with the kindness of all his readers. Uri was drafted into the IDF in late July 1964 and volunteered for the paratroop brigade. After basic training, he took a parachuting course and was authorized to wear “paratrooper wings”. In January 1967, he was discharged from regular service and went to a service year in the development town of Yeruham, where he fought with the forces that broke into the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, but was refused permission to be sent And continued to fight until he was brought unconscious to Bikur Holim Hospital, and the next day he fled from the hospital and followed his unit, which was already on its way to the Golan Heights, ending the efforts of persuasion to be accepted as a combat soldier in the unit. When you are left alone and wounded, surrounded by enemy soldiers? “His father Eliyahu asked him after the fighting ended “My grandfather’s Kol Nidrei,” replied Uri, who was awarded the “Six-Day War.” Three years later, Uri graduated with a BA in Sociology and Political Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Uri served as a teaching assistant in the political science department and was close to Prof. Shlomo Avineri, head of the department, and Uri worked as a coordinator for the Mimouna celebrations, , And recognized the need to enrich Israel’s culture by integrating many ethnic traditions into the renewed art of the State of Israel. In 1971 Uri Ozer was appointed Director-General of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Mr. Elad Peled. In the summer of 1973 he was sent by the office to the University of Michigan in the United States. He began his doctoral studies in the field of “public policy.” “I want to continue moving things in the country when I return,” he said on the eve of his trip. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Uri was in the United States. “I have to run, the guys will not manage without me,” he said on the morning of the fast day for the worshipers in the Detroit synagogue. He hurried back to Israel and on Yom Kippur at Kennedy Airport in New York, told one of his friends: “Twenty thousand people leaped forward in a game of baseball and filled the roads, many of them Jews, and no one thought my house was burning.” When the plane landed at son of-Gurion Airport, Uri immediately called his family and pretended to be speaking to them overseas. He was sent to the southern front and fought there as a company commander in the braking battles. On the eve of Simhat Torah, his unit crossed the canal to Egypt. At the end of the holiday, on the 19th of Tishrei 5734 (19.10.1973), he was hit by a bullet and killed while repelling an attack by Egyptian commando soldiers in the “Lettza” area on the west bank of the canal. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. Survived by his mother, brother and sister. After being knocked over he was raisedTo the rank of First Sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the battalion commander wrote: “We met him as a courageous commander with a high level of leadership and a great ability to withstand difficult situations, and he was outstanding in his intelligence. , A dear man and a loyal friend. “