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Ron (Ringwald), Amnon

Ron (Ringwald), Amnon


Son of David and Ruth. He was born on February 7, 1943, in Kfar Ruppin, the son of the kibbutz members who had settled in Kiryat Binyamin, where he studied for a while in the Ramat Yohanan group and later in Maayan Zvi, At the age of 16, Amnon began to work at Vulcan and continued to study high school at Beit HaKakid until he completed his studies. In August 1961 he was drafted into the IDF, but at first he wanted to go to a pilot’s course, but he was deterred by the death of his pilot friend and moved to the naval commando unit, and then joined the submarine course. , But he nevertheless tried to find his career in the career army and after the course he decided to continue serving in the army and wanted to continue for two years in the army, He was not able to accept military authority, but was very talented in his profession, and in 1966 he moved to the Tanin in the Six Day War Was found in the “Crocodile” operating near the enemy coast of Alexandria, and in the meantime he was offered the opportunity to go to England and join the Dakar team, and he received it, and Amnon the radio operator was responsible for receiving the news and transmitting them via loudspeakers, When the submarine, already on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, broke off with it and was no longer renewed, it was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968) The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Amnon’s death, Together with the rest, is the 29th Tevet 5728 (30.1.1968). He left a wife and a child. Because Amnon was among the missing team members, a memorial monument was placed inside him in a memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker,” several pages were devoted to Amnon and his history, and even his image is embedded in them. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.

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