Sadan, Ehud

Ehud, son of Carmela and David, was born on July 7, 1952 in Revivim, near Be’er Sheva. After completing five years of schooling at the “Mabuim” regional school, his family moved to Ashkelon and completed his studies at Yehezkel Elementary School. Afterward he continued to study at the Ashkelon school and at the end of ninth grade he entered the military boarding school near the Reali School in Haifa. At the end of two years of study, he returned to his parents’ home in Ashkelon and completed his studies at the Tagar High School in the real world. He was an excellent student and did well in his studies. He was also a good athlete and was interested in various sports, such as football, basketball and long and long distance runs. But spent most of his time devoted to the tennis game and was a member of the Shimshon Association in Ashkelon and the Israel Tennis Association, and participated in national tennis competitions and championships. Ehud was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early October 1970 and assigned to the Israel Air Force, and after successfully passing various tests he was sent to the School of Flight, and as always, Udi knew how to succeed in his studies. He was the first in the course, who took a solo flight and performed it correctly, and when he completed a certain stage of the course, the squadron commander said: “I am a commander here for six courses and I have not had a pilot like this yet.” The Yom Kippur War saw the platoon, which was embedded in an operational sortie, Simcha for his mother On October 6, 1973, three years after his enlistment, Lieutenant Colonel Udi left for his first operational flight over the enemy territory. During an attack on enemy tanks in the Kantara region, his plane was shot down and his tracks were lost. For a long time he was a cavity whose burial place was unknown, and months later his body was found and he was brought to eternal rest in the Ashkelon cemetery. Survived by his parents and sister. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, Udi’s squadron commander wrote: “His enthusiasm for the flight, and with his energy, his ability and will, contributed to his constant elevation and we arranged him to fly on interception planes before the end of the training period. I am sure that he might have been one of the best of our soldiers if he had not been hurt by his first combat mission, strange and difficult to speak in the past tense, his ever-present figure, his charming smile, his piercing and mischievous gaze, This makes it even more difficult to console the loss of a son Because he remained with us, because some of his character, his qualities, the things he believed in and for which he fought, were absorbed in us, will not be used, and will affect the education of our fighters. “