Safra, Alexander

Son of Yitzhak and Rivka. He was born on September 28, 1934, in the city of Ruse, Bulgaria. His father was one of the heads of the Hebrew and Zionist education movement in his country and the principal of the Hebrew school in his city. In the atmosphere of this national home in the Diaspora, the child absorbed the yearning for the land when the Hebrew language was his mother tongue. After the family immigrated to Israel in 1944, she settled in Ramat Gan, and the boy, who was ten at the time, was sent to his uncle’s home in Kfar Vitkin to continue his elementary school there, but a year later returned to his family. In the summer of 1946, the family moved from Ramat Gan and settled in the village of Hittin, where the child was absorbed in the children’s company and stood out as diligent and diligent as a student. After completing his studies, he was sent along with his classmates to the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, where he excelled in his studies and work, and specialized in a number of branches (rearing, poultry and vegetables). After a while his friends set up a nucleus and they hoped to see him among them, but in the meantime he completed his studies at Mikveh and with a sense of duty in the Lev returned to his parents and their economy and activities. He loved music very much, because he saw the important thing in all kinds of entertainment, and not only did he participate in the weekly musical quizzes at Kol Yisrael, but he also won several of their competitions. A year later (December 1952), he was drafted into the IDF, and eventually reached the rank of lieutenant, and was assigned to the Artillery Corps, but the Air Force was enchanted by his request and was transferred to the course. During the period of his service he returned to his parents’ farm despite the entreaties of his commanders, who was immediately elected to the village administration, became responsible for the flocks and coordinated the youth training in the area. (The farm) to establish their own nest and farm, and after a while they moved to Moshav Nir-Banim, and thanks to their diligence they began to rise and flourish. (And he himself was a fluteist), but even in those days he did not abandon the idea of ​​the pilot and when he was sent to Ghana for two years to serve as a pilot in the school of aviation (in the framework of the delegation of The Israel Air Force (IAF) accepted the proposal willingly, and in 1960 he went there with his family and was led by a group of local youngsters who managed to air the first pilot on a solo flight in the history of the young state. ; It was also acceptable to members of the Israeli colony in the area. On the 11th of Nissan 5708 (April 8, 1960) he fell while carrying out his duties. A few days later his coffin was hoisted into a country covered by the national flag. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Kfar Vitkin. He left a wife and a child. Officers of the Israeli Air Force in Ghana have published a booklet about the early days of the flight school there and is dedicated to his memory (and to the memory of the cadet who fell with him). On the first anniversary of his death, a booklet appeared in his memory entitled “Alex”