Manova, Manoah (‘Moni’)

Son of Avraham and Yehudit. He was born on the 12th of Shevat 5758 (Tel Aviv, 6.2.1958). He attended the Rokach Elementary School. He continued to study at the Ironi H High School and another year at the vocational high school and in the trend of Electricity Moni. He joined the youth movement HaNoar HaOved VeHalomed as he was young. He bought many friends there and spent a lot of time with them as part of a parent company And trips across the country. He had a good sense of humor, and from any awkward situation he would come out with a joke or an amusing story. Moni’s great hobby was football. He trained in the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team and moved to Bnei Yehuda. After leaving school, Moni went to visit his relatives in Canada and returned full of impressions. Upon his return, he was hired as a car mechanic by the Carasso Brothers Company and worked there until his enlistment. Menoah was drafted into the IDF in early February 1976. He was offered a job by profession and refused to be a jovnik and decided to volunteer for the paratroopers, and the hard training he underwent made him tougher and tougher, yet he maintained his sense of humor. Walking, fully strapped, on a long journey or on a stretcher, and in moments of crisis he always found the word that released waves of laughter from hoarse throats and gave the tired legs the strength to go on until the end.Moni had successfully completed a parachuting course and was proud of the red cap, In the final exercise of a long and exhausting training series, on the 23rd of May 1977 ), Muni was killed in the disaster of the helicopter crash in the Jordan Valley, killing 54 soldiers, who was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, left behind by his parents and brother, engraved in a memorial to the 54 fighters who perished in the disaster. Air force.