Ben Olga and Rafael. He was born on January 1, 1967 in Moshav Yanuv in the Sharon region. Brother to Uri and Adana. Ilan began his studies at the Yeshurun elementary school in Netanya. The teacher of his class says that he was a child “with a smile that did not leave his face, a friendly and pleasant man who excelled in his ability to express himself … During his breaks, Ilan used to talk to me about various subjects, and I enjoyed listening to him. Ilan graduated from Bar-Ilan High School in Netanya. Already in his youth, he was involved and interested in what was going on around him, in the community and in society. During his high school years, he served as a youth counselor in Yaniv and was active in the Labor Party Youth Conference. Ilan joined the IDF in September 1986 and volunteered for the Nahal Brigade. After the basic training he went to a combat paramedics course and completed successfully. He served as a medic until he was discharged from the IDF in September 1989. At the end of his military service, Ilan chose to work as a journalist and connected his fate to the profession. As a reporter for criminal affairs and party affairs at the ITIM news agency. Haim Noy, the editor-in-chief of Atim, remembers him as “an energetic, reliable, efficient and very quick reporter. A few years later, he began working as an economic correspondent for the newspaper Hadashot, and when he closed the newspaper, he worked for a short period in Haaretz, and in 1993 Ilan moved from the field of print journalism to electronic communications, “At first he served as the Histadrut’s Histadrut affairs correspondent, and after a year was appointed as the Voice of Israel correspondent in the north, Amnon Nadav, the radio director at the time, said:” All the words on him look hollow, but Ilan was really one of the most diligent reporters on the radio. Ilan was a dying breed of journalists. He was a classic field reporter, not one who sat by the phone. He always liked to see things with his own eyes. “When he began his work as a reporter for Kol Yisrael, Ilan met Sharon, who worked as a parliamentary assistant, and the couple married shortly afterward. Moved to a new apartment in Tiberias, but did not get it, and Ilan invested heavily in his work and was alerted to every news event in the north, covering all kinds of events, from events of a civilian nature to military and security events. A news event, he was known for his good temper and was glad to fulfill any journalistic assignment Liu. His colleagues say they “always received the requests in good spirits. Uri Porat, director general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority at the time, noted that “Ilan was an excellent, diligent and reliable reporter who enriched the radio with current reports , Which brought what is happening on the northern border to every home in Israel. ” In addition to his work, Ilan began to study for a BA in political science and communications at the Jordan Valley College, a branch of Bar-Ilan University. He did not finish his studies. Two weeks before his death, he was invited to lecture to hundreds of media students from high schools in Haifa and the Northern District during the annual conference on communications held at Kibbutz Yagur. For two hours, he told the students about the nature of the correspondent’s role in the north: “Lebanon is one big madness, you can not know where it can come from.” We, the northern journalist, have become part of this struggle. On the outposts of the IDF – and goes to sleep on the roadside bombs. Event-chasing event and sometimes our daily routine, and of course life there in the outposts and on the roads, difficult and unbearable. On February 12, 1999, during his service as a journalist, Ilan was killed in an operational activity in Lebanon, and joined the ranks of military commanders who went to comfort mourners in her home Of a senior Lebanese figure in the village of Shiva in Lebanon, who made their way back in a convoy of four IDF vehicles. Near the “Kawachba” post in the former security zone in south Lebanon, the vehicle in which Ilan drove was traveling from a distance. Brigadier General Erez Gerstein, commander of the Liaison Unit in Lebanon, was accompanied by Brigadier-General Aburish and First Sergeant Omar Elkabetz. The vehicle was overturned and the passengers were killed. He was thirty-two years old at the time of his death. After his death, the manpower division of the General Staff decided to send him to his soldiers. Ilan was laid to rest in the military section of the Moshav Yanuv cemetery. Survived by his wife, parents, brother and sister. Thousands of people attended the military funeral, including family members, friends, Knesset members, military personnel and journalists. Among others, Ilan Shimon Peres, Avigdor Kahalani, Uri Porat and many others were eulogized. Ezer Weizman, the president of Israel, paid a condolence visit to the family’s home, saying that “Ilan was part of the northern landscape, he had an impressive presence and he was the most polite, serious journalist.” IDF Spokesperson Oded Ben-Ami: “It seems to me that, more than any area of responsibility, Ilan loved the soldiers of the north … With sensitivity and responsibility, with much love and gentleness, he reported on IDF activity in southern Lebanon, On the “Dabor” of the Israeli Navy, he broadcast on the soldiers – he loved the soldiers. “A number of actions were taken to commemorate Ilan, and the Beit Sokolov headquarters decided to commemorate him by naming the garden in his name. Of Ilan, which was sculpted by the artist Jacob Epstein, a table with the microphone and tape recorder that Ilan used in his work, as well as newspaper clippings A family member said at the dedication ceremony of the kindergarten on the anniversary of Ilan’s death: The voice of Israel is lost. We wrote in the north, sharp-tongued and articulate, with a visionary and sober vision, who lives in all his limbs on the north, with his joys and sorrows, his father, his disappointments and hopes. ” In the library of the Yeshurun elementary school in Netanya, a ‘communication corner’ was established in the name of Ilan, a student in the school. In November 1999, a local radio station, Kol HaGalil Ha’alon (The Voice of the Upper Galilee), named after Ilan, was established in Kibbutz Amir. The IBA management honored Ilan’s memory and established a fund in his name. Every year, the Foundation awards a prize to the outstanding correspondent of the Israel Radio news division. The IBA also produced a special memorial booklet containing dozens of articles that Ilan broadcast during the last year of his life, until the last article that was broadcast. The booklet also includes farewell letters from his co-workers. The voice of Israel’s voice, Ron Nasiel, wrote to him: “Ilan, please raise your voice / We do not hear / Do not shut up now / Do not raise us fears / Ilan, You are cut off / Give us a sign that your roots are strong / The flight of the birds / You were in the valley, Surrounding you Mountains / The soul of flowering in strange fields / The wind blew over your face, The sun stroked / The sudden joy of life / Ilan, Will you say something / Forgot the password suddenly? Where you are in peace / Ilan, you have passed the broadcasting limit / you have been very distant from us / we are not absorbing, but you already know / will not come back to us yet / but the love that you have spread is reserved for us, like fragments of light, Sea and land / Related examinedA great soul. “
