Shannon, Amiel (“Ami”)

Son of Walter and Ruth. He was born on April 24, 1955. He studied at the Ehud elementary school in Haifa, then continued his studies at the Sprinzak vocational school and graduated from the Mishlav High School in Haifa. Ami was a pleasant and pleasant fellow. When he was 4, he traveled with his family, who went on a two-year mission to Africa. At school he was accepted by his classmates and his teachers liked him even though he was not among the best students in his studies. Ami is attracted to everything connected with sea and water; He loved swimming, rowing, fishing and diving, and even joined the rowing club at the sea pier at the Kishon Port. He was a member of the Scouts youth movement in the Tzofit tribe on the Carmel and eventually became a leader in the movement. “He loved the life and knew how to turn the routine into a special event, he was the only son who could compliment the girls on their clothes and their new hairstyle, he was always devoted and clean and the most characteristic was his character, . Ami was blessed with an excellent technical sense and knew how to repair any device, to build various accessories and to perfect them. Ami was drafted into the IDF in October 1973. After completing his course he was sent to a naval unit in the Sinai and excelled in his role. Followed by Ami’s personality, striving for the skill of professional work at sea, and the joy of life that characterized every step in his path. Ami was endowed with a rare technical sense and often found simple and excellent solutions to the problems he encountered. He always performed the diving missions with precision and marked the first. Ami’s home in Haifa served as a meeting place for his classmates. He had his graduation party, which he himself instructed. He was the only one who remembered his remaining friends to keep the base and when the party ended, he went to visit them and even changed them for several hours on guard duty. “On October 4, 1975, Ami traveled along the shores of Marsa Baraka Bay in Sinai. Ami was declared a missing person and his tombstone was erected in the area of ​​the fallen, whose burial place is unknown, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, left behind by parents and brother.