Nir (Landesman), Oded

Son of Assaf and Gilo. He was born on April 10, 1944, in Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar, and was then the eldest grandson and grandson of the kibbutz. He grew up and was educated on the kibbutz. He studied at the local elementary school and was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and of the Union of the Kibbutzim and the Kibbutzim. As an athlete, he was a member of “Hapoel” Ayelet Hashachar and loved playing soccer and swimming. He was also good at flute and playing the harmonica. He loved the fields of Ayelet Hashahar and absorbed the spirit of the earth. After eight years of elementary school, he moved to the vocational school in Afikim where he studied the boxing profession. Oded was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in November 1962 and volunteered to serve in the navy, and when he completed his regular army service, he joined the regular army, and during the Six-Day War he entered an enemy port and took part in all the operations his unit carried out. On September 8, 1969, he fell while serving in the Gulf of Suez and was brought to rest at the Ayelet- Shahar left a child behind him, and after Oded drowned two enemy torpedoes at the Ras-Sadat anchorage in the northern Gulf of Suez, the unit commander wrote to his parents in a letter Condolences: “Oded was among our most experienced and distinguished fighters. There was not one professional field within the framework of the unit in which he did not specialize, which was not difficult for him and which he was reluctant to perform well. But this last task, in which he fell, not before it was completed with precision and precision, was one of the most difficult and cautious. The love of life, the tenderness of the soul, the unconditional kindness, physical strength, beauty and self-sacrifice to others and relatives – were what characterized him and made him loved and admired by his friends, subordinates and commanders. I know that Oded referred to a special and distinguished race in the history of the Jewish community in Israel. It was no coincidence that we found him in the ranks of our soldiers, not by chance he was chosen to go out and fill out missions of this kind at the end of which he fell. “A memorial scroll bearing his name was published on his first anniversary.