Ben Esther and Elijah. He was born on March 16, 1947 in Tel Aviv, where he grew up and was educated. My father, a wonderful son and devoted brother, studied twelve years of study at the Herzliya Gymnasium. During his free time he read a lot and loved to play sports: football, volleyball and table tennis. In 1989, during his military service, the soccer team in which he served as a goalkeeper was awarded the IDF championship, and in August 1965 my father enlisted in the IDF, where he served for twenty-nine years. He began his service as a soldier in the 79th Battalion, from which he moved to the 9th Battalion in February 1967 as an officer and commander of the tank division. He received a medal from Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yekutiel, who wrote: “During the Yom Kippur War, Major Avraham Romano served as a brigade officer. He led the command post under enemy fire, and during the entire fighting, he employed his subordinates with great intelligence and efficiency, and gave them confidence. In May 1972 he married Ilana and a year later their firstborn, Elik, was born. In November 1974, Avi was appointed as a senior staff officer in the battalion and in June of that year he was appointed battalion commander. In 1976, Ella was born and a month after her birth, my father was appointed deputy commander of the Armored Corps. In February 1978, my father went to Kentucky in the United States as an apprentice in an advanced armor officer course. Upon his return to Israel in 1979, he was appointed deputy brigade commander and that year he became the brigade commander. Two months later, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and in July 1982 my father was appointed to the IAF officer, and in October of that year he became an officer in the armored combat unit. In May 1984, Avi was appointed as the 500th Brigade Commander, and in that capacity he fought in the Lebanon War. In March 1989, Avi was appointed Commander of the Headquarters Training Center and a year later he was appointed IDF Attaché and Defense Ministry emissary in Chile, where he received three decorations from the Navy, the Land and the Carabineros, and in August 1993 the family returned to Israel. In the political sciences at the University of Haifa, and at the same time began to work as CEO of Sakal Sport at Lod Airport, where my father was hospitalized for a heart disease that lasted eight years and did not prevent him from continuing to serve in field units, The patient was born on July 19, 1994, as a result of cardiac arrest, and was forty-seven years old at the time of his death He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind a wife, son, daughter, mother, brother, sister and two sisters, Yaffa and Mazal, and his wife Ilana writes: “The man we loved, We lost a husband, a father, a friend, a friend and a huge man with a special sense of humor and a crazy smile to which he could only miss a lot of pain. “
