Son of Nina and Yaffa. Born on December 20, 1963 in Kiev, Ukraine, Vitali grew up and studied in Kiev, where he successfully graduated from high school, Vitaly, who liked to set up difficult challenges and win them, dreamed of studying medicine. His stubbornness and his parents, who refused to accept the fact that Jews living in the Soviet Union were hard to get into universities, Vitaly succeeded in fulfilling his dream, wandering to the Ural Mountains where he began to study medicine at the University of Chilavinsk, Vitaly was brilliant in mathematics and had a phenomenal memory and special language skills. They describe him as a Simcha man, always in the center of things, who used to share with my friends The food parcels his parents sent him and celebrate birthdays with food, drinks, and dancing During his studies, Vitaly volunteered to do surgery in return for surgery, and during his university studies he met Anna, after which he courted the flowers. Vitaly, who for ideological reasons insisted that his son be born in Israel, immigrated to Israel with his family in September 1990. A week later, his son, Yossi, was born in Safed and immediately began studying Hebrew in the Ulpan and in a preparatory course medicine. Two months later he took the test and passed it easily, on the first try. A year and five months after he arrived in Israel, he became a full-time physician at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, and was admitted as an intern in the Department of Thoracic Surgery. In the Orot neighborhood of Or Akiva, they absorbed themselves in the community and loved the place, and during the years the students gathered together at the home of one of them, and preserved the tradition of the joint celebrations of the birthdays. Vitali was the focus of the celebrations. Social Focus. “A man who knows how to love, knows how to live, knows how to be a friend, a husband and a wonderful father, with a brilliant sense of humor, always on the sarcasm side,” says the friends.In early June 1993, after his work at the hospital, He underwent a basic training course and a medical officer course and was assigned to the Northern Command as part of the Medical Corps. Due to his high medical profile, he often served in combat positions in Lebanon, and despite the difficulties and dangers he found it interesting. Vitaly was an ambitious man, prone to bursting out of curiosity. Therefore, he decided to take especially difficult American medical exams to obtain a work permit for continuing education in the United States. As usual, he passed the exams above the average. In 1996, he took the first stage in General Surgery and successfully passed them. Vitali completed all the rotations in general surgery, blood vessels and cardiology. He was trained in cardiac surgery and planned to take the second stage exams in 1998. He was considered a cold-blooded doctor with wide vision who helped him in difficult medical conditions. His co-workers say he was a great doctor and a loved one and they saw him as the future of the department. Vitaly served in the reserves. When his family asked him to try to move to a rear unit, he refused, saying: “I can not leave my friends who serve in Lebanon.” When asked why he goes to the army so often, he replied that he must go “for the sky to be brighter, so that we, here, will be safe and protected.” On the evening of 28 February 1997, the helicopter disaster occurred when two Yasur helicopters collided over Moshav Shear Yashuv. seventyAnd the three fighters, who made their way to operational activity in Lebanon, were killed, among them Vitali, who was in reserve duty. Vitali was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Neveh David, Haifa. He was thirty-three years old when he fell. He left behind a wife, son and parents. After his death, he was promoted to captain. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak wrote: “Vitali served as a doctor in the medical battalion of the ‘Pillar of Fire’ division in the Northern Command. He was described by his commanders as a dedicated professional officer who volunteered first for every mission. Vitali stood out in his modesty and willingness to help at all times, and was popular among those around him. “The battalion commander, who served in the reserves, wrote to the family:” Dr. Radinsky Vitali was assigned to the unit about four years ago. In the framework of the company. ” Director of the chest surgery department at Rambam Hospital, told him: “Dr. Radinsky was an excellent surgeon and a quiet person with self-confidence, and all the patients always loved him, and every doctor felt safe working alongside him.” Director of the hospital’s operating rooms, said: “He was an outstanding and talented young man, and although we usually say such things after Adam’s death, we at Rambam recognized him as such in his lifetime.” And the local council in Or Akiva, erected a stethoscope-like statue in its memory, in the southern square of the Orot neighborhood, and called the square in its name
