Semel, Noach

Son of Haim and Leah. He was born on January 5, 1943 in Kfar Malal. After graduating from elementary school in Kiryat Ata, he began studying at the Gordon Pedagogical College in Haifa and completed high school there. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in August 1961 and joined the Israel Air Force, where he saw a special challenge: He was a combat pilot and attained the rank of lieutenant, and during his entire service he aspired to study mechanical engineering or aeronautics at the Hebrew Technion in Haifa. At the outbreak of the Six-Day War, during which he served in the Armored Corps as an adjutant for air support, although he was not eager to fight, but was tasked with carrying out his mission with all his Lev, using his experience as a combat pilot. 8.6.1967), fell in a battle west of Bir-Gafgafa in Sinai while his SLA was hit by an enemy tank shell. Noah was attached to the Armored Corps, which served as the main axis in Sinai. He left a wife and a little girl; His wife was pregnant and five months after he fell, the second daughter, named after her father, was born to replace the letters: Chen. He was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Haifa. His commander, in a letter of condolence he wrote to his wife, noted that according to the laws and accounts he received, “Noah performed his duties efficiently in directing our planes against the enemy and preventing them from hitting the battalion. Always carry out any task assigned to him. ” His name was immortalized in the book “On Your Platforms Space” published by comrades-in-arms