Mirkin, Amir

Son of Yair and Sarah. He was born on March 9, 1957, in Kibbutz Revivim, where he moved to Nahariya where he studied at the H. Weizmann graduated from the Sammat High School in Haifa, and in 1975, after successfully passing the matriculation exams, he was accepted to the Academic Reserve to complete the technical studies at Sammat School. A year later he graduated and was certified as a mechanical engineer. As a child, Amir loved music and participated in the Nahariya Youth Orchestra. He excelled as a musician – first as a flutist and later as a trumpeter. During his high school years, he was active in a variety of sports activities, as part of the Hapoel-Nahariya group and in the framework of the school. He played basketball and soccer teams and in the summer of 1973 he went with a group of Hapoel – Nahariya to tour Germany. Another sport that Amir spent many hours was sailing. He took part several times in the Yehiam and Bamshah Nahariya-Shavei Zion marches. As a son of parents who were members of the “Mahanot Ha’olim” movement, members of the Palmach, soldiers of the Yiftah Brigade during the War of Independence and of the first to join Kibbutz Revivim after the war, Amir was infused with the spirit of love of the land. Therefore, even though he was allowed to serve in his profession, he chose to volunteer for a combat unit. Amir was drafted into the IDF in July 1975 and volunteered for the infantry as a parachutist, and was asked to serve in the combat force and some of his contemporaries in technical schools. After basic training, which he successfully managed despite the exhausting training, he was sent to Company D of his regiment and was one of the outstanding soldiers in training and operational service. Amir took part in operational activities in the Jordan Valley, Mount Hermon and the Lebanese border. “Everyone who came here knew what he was coming to, he knew he was not going to lick honey, and he did not have to do easy things, and he did not have to talk about it,” he said in a conversation with Hannah Zemer in Davar. On May 10, 1977, Amir fell in the line of duty in the crash of the helicopter in the Jordan Valley. In this disaster, 54 soldiers were killed. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. Survived by his parents and two sisters. “They say that the first goes to the good / to a Yaffa world, where there are no pain,” he wrote in a poem in his memory. “There they are worthy of eternity / the thousands of tears of all the brothers / who remember forever, and do not forget, “In a letter of condolence to the family, his commander wrote:” The soldiers of the battalion will continue to follow the path we were instructed to, through volunteerism, courage and sacrifice, in order to fortify the security of the people for us and for the people of Israel. “