Amitai, son of Zinni and Adi-Chaim, was born on May 7, 1947 in Kfar Szold. He was a year old when he was evacuated during the establishment of the State of Israel together with all the children of the kibbutz to Kibbutz Ein Harod. After the War of Independence, his parents moved to Givat Hayim-Ihud, where he attended elementary school and high school. Amitai was a diligent and good student and excelled mainly in the fields of history, literature, and agriculture. He was one of the members of the national secretariat of the division of the Union of the Kibbutzim and the Kibbutzim and set out on his behalf for a year of service in the Jerusalem area to guide the youth there. Amitai was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1966 and was assigned to the Intelligence Corps, where he took part in a parachuting course, a course for explosive-device officers, a basic training course for officers of the Armored Corps. His commanders wrote in his opinion: “Amitai is an excellent and outstanding officer, dedicated, reliable, thorough, talented, diligent, responsible and efficient, very experienced, with considerable achievements in all areas of his work. During the Six-Day War he fought in Sinai as a parachutist, and was awarded the “Six-Day War”. He served four years in the regular army, and due to his special duties, which was careful not to tell them anything about his family, he was repeatedly asked by the military authorities to extend his service. He made this arrangement with the consent of the kibbutz, and was given to him in appreciation of his special contribution as a commander in the Israel Defense Forces, and was sent to the United States to organize summer camps for Jewish communal youth there and in the few months he spent there to bring them closer to Israel. And he was active in various circles to know the country and to watch the birds, and he was always friendly and friendly, always willing to lend a helping hand and willingly respond to every request, Honest and honest man, handsome and fair, and honest, and honest and very sensitive to wrongdoings. Amati was a loyal son of his family, a devoted husband to his wife Shulamit, and a loving father to his daughter Vered, and when the Yom Kippur War broke out, Amati was sent to the front in Sinai on October 20, Purging the airport in Fayyad, Egypt, immediately after its capture, an anti-tank missile hit the jeep in which he was driving and he was killed on the spot. The jeep was stationed near the field in memory and until the soldiers evacuated the area, and Amitai was brought to rest in the Givat Hayim-Ihud cemetery, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, a father, a mother and a sister. Condolences to the bereaved family his commander wrote: “Amitai was an example to all of us, first and foremost – his extreme integrity. He would first have demanded of himself and he had fulfilled his task with great devotion. We all saw how he was “torn” between his obligations to his family, which he was deeply attached to. Amitai was an officer who planned every detail, thinking about all the possibilities and preparing for them, always looking for the unusual solution, free of convention and striving for a clean and perfect performance. Thanks to officers like him, the unit achieved its great achievements, “His kibbutz published a pamphlet in memory of the kibbutzniks who fell in the war, among them Amitai.
