Shani, Na’aman (Nami)

Na’aman (Nami), son of Yehudit and Yaakov, was born on February 22, 1953 in Tel Aviv, and his childhood friend, Zvika, said that Nami always loved to build and create. Patents’, attempts and corrections of mechanisms. I remember how you dealt with motors, you built a car with an engine, a hovercraft, or a boat … All things came to you easily and naturally. With the wonderful combination of your willpower, your devotion and your ability to think, you have always produced wondrous things under your capable hands. “Nami would have spoken and written down and wrote his writings as” telegrams, “but he was active in school life. During his studies he was active in the Gadna, especially in the field of shooting, and won medals in competitions. After completing his studies and having time until his enlistment, he decided to go to Sinai and work on building fortifications in the canal. Na’aman was recruited to the IDF in early November 1971 and volunteered for the Golani Brigade, where he was trained as a platoon commander and was assigned as a platoon commander in the brigade’s training base. Eitan, one of his pupils, told him: “I was one of Na’aman’s children, and he was our commander … We felt that the commander was our second father, and for some reason we always felt warm and safe in the vicinity of Na’aman. He behaved to us as if we were his sons, he demanded that we pour out everything from our heart and not hold a grudge, and he treated us first as a person and afterward as a commander … We felt that Naaman was our officer. At the head of his soldiers, Nami took part in operational activity beyond the borders of the country and was given the “Operational Service Award”. At the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, a team of fighters from the brigade training base was organized and Naaman headed for the battle against the Syrians. The day before his death, all the apprentices went to sleep in the tent, when the night was a very cold night, so that Na’aman would not sleep at night in a warm and pleasant hut, he took off the ranks and went to sleep with all the guys in that cold tent And in those dilapidated beds. ” His commanders, describing their fighting, said: “Na’aman fights with his friends as he fights those who know what he is fighting for – courageously and bravely, with devotion and sacrifice.” On the 9th of Tishrei 5734 (October 9, 1973), Na’aman fell in a face-to-face battle with Syrian commandos, who landed from helicopters near the Nahaf camp. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Survived by his parents and three sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to lieutenant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Your son was doing his job in the best possible way. Things about his way of life and his fall are included in the booklet “Sad Flowers”, a hand for the graduates of the municipal high school D, who fell in Israel’s wars; It is also mentioned in the booklet ” the Words dont Speak of Death,”