Naor, Eliyahu (“Eli”)

Son of Nissim and Rachel. Born in 1934 in Iraq, he immigrated to Israel in 1951. In 1951, at the age of seventeen, he joined the ranks of the Gadna-Yam and underwent a pre-military course, which enabled him to serve as a mechanic in vessels. In July 1951, he was drafted into the Israel Navy, and from then until his last day he served in the ships of the IAF and passed through all the stages of his expansion from the old frigates to the destroyers, one of the first members of their crew, who loved the sea and the ship in which he served day and night. , In a comfortable and even stormy weather, was found to be tirelessly to deal with his role, both professionally and even in terms of the person in which his personality had expressed unshakable authority. He was aware of what was going on in the ship and was always there when he needed it He was not angry, and when he came back and landed, tactfully, tactfully, tactfully, pleasantly and professionally, he said all he had, saying that he had a sense of constructive criticism, gifted with organization and leadership. , Spent most of his life in the sea and found his death as a fighter in the Eilat destroyer, when he was attacked by Egyptian missiles and drowned in front of a Romanian beach in northern Sinai on 18.10.1967. He left a wife and two children. A memorial monument was placed in his memory for the missing soldiers in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. After a while he was assigned a gravestone separately at the military cemetery in Haifa. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown