Meir, Ehud (“Udi”)

Son of Uri and Ziona. The grandson of Dr. Yosef Meir, who was the medical director of Kupat Holim and the first director general of the Ministry of Health, was born on 27.2.1951 in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the ” AD Gordon and the Municipal High School – both in Tel Aviv. As a child, Udi was discovered as a talented and sensitive child with a strong personality and personality. His way of thinking was original and independent. Even in his early years he was interested in the general problems of the country and the country, and the love of the homeland was inherent in him. He was accepted by his friends for his honesty, humility, and marvelous willpower. In his class, Udi had his own opinion and could stand his ground. He was active in the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed movement and the United Movement (north of Tel Aviv). He took part in all the activities and especially loved the hiking around the country, in order to get to know the country on all its paths and to commemorate with its camera special and unconventional landscapes. He was an excellent athlete, practiced light athletics, participated in numerous high school competitions and received many awards. In leisure, he was particularly interested in physics and mathematics and excelled in solving difficult and complicated problems of advanced material than what was taught in high school. He was always willing to help his fellow students prepare the lessons, discreetly, without showing any superiority. When he finished seventh grade in high school, his grandmother wanted to pay for a trip abroad, but he refused. “There are many Yaffa places in Israel that I enjoy traveling in. I will travel abroad when I finish my military service!” He took away nothing from anyone, wanted to reach and achieve everything on his own and always contented himself with what he had. His plans were to continue his real studies, but he knew that he had to fulfill his military and national duty before implementing his personal plans. In order to train himself for military service, he began intensive training. Learn to drive, swim in the sea, practice sports and spend long hard journeys on the beach – all to be ready for the army. He was drafted into the IDF at the end of October 1969 and joined the Nahal group in the Nahal Brigade. He completed his basic training as an outstanding apprentice and during the basic training period, when he came home on vacation, hinting that he was going to sign up for regular army service. When she wondered whether he had said this, as if to prove her: “At all, Mom, where did all the education I received at home from all these years from you and Avi, I was always raised for volunteering and sacrifice?” After completing his basic training, he continued with a course for squad commanders, in which he also made the most of his request: he attached himself to the heavy tool and pressed a MG machine gun and took all the training with him. As an outstanding soldier, he was chosen to take part in all the retaliation operations of the unit and during his short service he managed to be in the Suez Canal and also in retaliation operations in the Lebanese territory. On August 28, 1970, he was in the Jordan region with his elected officers to attack the terrorists who had shelled the village of Ruppin in the Beit She’an Valley overnight. He fell in a clash with a terrorist squad. And was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. On the first anniversary of his downfall, the family published his life story “Udi”.