Matanya (Matiowitz), Ehud

Ehud, son of Naomi and Eliahu, was born on October 16, 1954, in Haifa. He studied at the Ilanot Elementary School for four years and moved to the Reali School, where he graduated as a graduate of the high school. Ehud was an excellent student, especially in the real professions. He excelled in mathematics and received the “Grossman Prize for Mathematics” at the Technion. In addition to mathematics he was fond of swimming, the chess game, and later on, listening to classical and chamber music, followed by Ann Rand’s philosophical theory. However, he spent most of his time and energy investing in the hobby of electronics, which he began to engage in from an early age. He was planning and assembling shelters and transmitters, and devoted himself to the activities of a radio amateur with a license to a Class A station called 4Z4JN. Udi, as his associates used to call him, was loved by his friends and respected by his teachers. He is a serious boy, loves order, is thrifty and is happy with what he has. Once, after a discussion with his teacher, he went up to the lectern and taught in her place, and wrote: “I will not forget his proud and courteous stance as a teacher before his classmates.” Ehud was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of November 1972. He served in the Artillery Corps, completed an artillery training course and was a second-generation cannon-gunner, who was also the deputy commander of a cannon crew in the central sector of the Suez Canal. (12 October 1973), during the braking battles, when his artillery battery was attacked by Egyptian planes and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, leaving behind his brother and sister, parents and grand parents. after his fall he was promoted toSergeant.