Shapira, Amnon

Amnon, son of Naima and Yosef, was born on March 16, 1952 in Ness Ziona. He grew up in his hometown and studied in the “State A” elementary school. Afterward he continued his studies at the military boarding school in Haifa and after two years returned to Nes Tziona and completed his studies at the local high school. He was an original boy and despite his lack of militarism, he wanted to go to the military boarding school and was soon able to get used to the rigid nature of the training and the serious demands of the Reali school. He absorbed himself and acquired many friends. Amnon did not spend much time preparing lessons, but he knew the material well and was an active student in the class. He was by nature an optimistic and joyful boy, with a sense of humor, the first and foremost of every good deed or trick. He was friendly, always looking for the good and the positive in human beings and the most Yaffa in life and was loved by his friends, who always sought his closeness. Amnon was an avid music lover with a perfect musical hearing and loved all good music, from Beethoven and Bach to Beetle, Matti Caspi and Shlomo Gronich. He was also a sports fan and especially liked soccer and table tennis. He was active in the Maccabi Nes Ziona Association and eventually led the club. Amnon was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early February 1971. After being disqualified from the pilot’s examinations for a visual impairment, he was offered an electrician technician service, but two weeks later decided that he would prefer to serve in a combat unit. Was an excellent gunner, and in a national championship of armored corps, his tank won first place, after which he completed a tank commander course, loved the tank and controlled all its systems. The army’s instructions and treatment in the tank were very human He was always the best spirit in the company, and he was excellent at describing and telling, and for many nights friends were sitting around him listening to him, and his commanders and subordinates loved him very much. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Amnon was at Ma’oz Cedar, in the southern sector of the Suez Canal, and was one of the first to leave for the enemy, and he fought fiercely and fiercely and destroyed enemy vessels and commandos that penetrated the area. Who was critically wounded and wounded. He asked his soldiers not to consider him and continue to fight, but his subordinates evacuated him under fire to the IAA, and from there he was taken by helicopter to Tel Hashomer Hospital on October 18, 1973. He died of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the military section of Beit- The cemetery in Nes Ziona was left behind by his parents and a sister, who was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant, and wrote to his bereaved family: “Your son Amnon z” l served in my unit as a tank commander and until his last day was admired by his soldiers, He loves life, cheerful and courageous. ” The Armored Corps, in whose ranks he fought, published a book in memory of the soldiers who fell in battle and Amnon among them.