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Reisner, Eliezer (“Basti”)

Reisner, Eliezer (“Basti”)

Eliezer (Basti), son of David-Theodore and Henrietta Reisner, was born in 9/11/1929 in Modra, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to Eretz Israel illegally in 1939. He served in field security and beginning in August 1950 in the Air Force. In December 1951 he completed a flying course with honors. From an early age he aspired to be a pilot. On the 26th of Av, (August 7, 1953), he left on a mission and did not return. A monument in his memory was erected in the missing-persons section of the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The family set up a plaque on his father’s grave at the Carmel Beach cemetery in Haifa, not far from where he fell in the sea. In 1986, parts of a Mosquito plane were found in the sea in the Hof HaCarmel area. After inspection, it became clear that these were the parts of Eliezer Reisner and Yehuda Katz’s plane that crashed in the sea in 1953. On October 30, 2001, Eliezer was laid to rest in a military ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.

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