Segari, Dan (“Danny”)

Son of Shaul and Marcella. Born in Jerusalem on August 19, 1939. After completing elementary school, he continued his high school studies, but in the middle he moved to Haifa where he graduated from the “Hugim” high school. – Aviation was the youngest apprentice in it. Danny has devoted himself to building models and has successfully participated in national competitions to model models. When he was about 15 years old, he joined Gadna-Air and a year and a half later he flew a solo flight in Piper. Upon the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign, he asked to join the Air Force and be a reconnaissance squadron, but because of his age, his request was rejected. He served in the Israel Air Force as a combat pilot, and after five years of military service he worked for three years as a pilot of spraying, and in May 1967 he planned to take a Boeing captain course in El Al. He was involved in a number of sorties to Egypt, and his last mission was the bombing of Syria’s Damir airfield, but his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and despite his injury he refused to be escorted and demanded that the other planes carry on with the mission. His plane. It was on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. Had put a wife in her pregnancy-and his daughter had been born about seven weeks after her father had fallen. Two weeks later his body was returned by Syria. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.