Son of Mona and David, was born on July 4, 1958 in Kibbutz Beit Zera, the eldest son of his parents. “Abu,” as his friends called him, grew up in the regular route of a kibbutz member: an elementary school in Beit Zera, high school in the “Bekaat Kinrot” educational institution, a year of training in Hashomer Hatzair and enlistment in the IDF. From his childhood, he stood out for his leadership ability, his temperament and his talents. He was always the head of the gang, an activist and an organizer-a child that adults could count on. While still in primary school, Avikam organized a soccer team. He wrote to the national coach and received from him a training manual with a dedication, arranged for a standard court and a costume for the national team, organized league matches with the children of the other kibbutzim in the valley and invited two of the stars of the national team of the day. Avikam loved to study, read, play and travel. He worked in sports for his branches. From the age of 10 he regularly participated in the Kinneret crossing and was interested in science and politics. He was a member of the committees, a party facilitator, a writer of plays, plays and serious parts, a participant in plays, an adult volleyball player and, above all, a good friend and favorite instructor. At the beginning of his adolescence, Avikam stayed with his family in Australia, where his parents were emissaries of Hashomer Hatzair. These were two years that added to the consolidation of his knowledge and values in Judaism and Zionism and broadening his horizons in general. He was also prominent in his activities in the youth movement, in the community sports associations, and in the school. When the family returned to Israel, I returned and quickly integrated into his group. In the 11th grade he went on a delegation from the State Department to the United States. Avikam, who was quick to connect with people, also acquired many friends from among his fellow members of the delegation, as well as among the American youth and their parents. At the end of his high school studies, he completed a thesis with a researcher from the Kinneret Research Laboratory. In his work he examined the preferred food of sardines in the Sea of Galilee and data from this study were published in the international scientific press. In the thirteenth year Avikam taught at the Hashomer Hatzair branch in Kiryat Haim, where he loved traveling in Israel and was familiar with its various landscapes, traveling by car and foot, Especially Avian, and since his childhood has participated in surveys conducted by the Israel Nature Reserves Authority, where he loved the sea and was a certified diver, he knew the stars of the sky and loved to tell legends about them.was fond of music, reading, theater, movies – but most of all loved people. Avikam was drafted into the IDF in November 1978. He began his career in the IAF during an aviation course, but when he was offered an advanced stage To be a navigator, he preferred to leave the course. He moved to the Intelligence Corps and completed a course in which he was an outstanding trainee but wanted to serve in a combat unit. In the end he succeeded (after turning in a personal letter to the chief of staff) and arrived at the Golani reconnaissance unit, enjoying the service of the Sayeret commando unit, was pleased with the training and equipment, the patrols, the navigations, the long journeys and the special atmosphere. Doron, who has just finished 12th grade, in a work accident. Avikam was an officer in the Golani reconnaissance unit during a period of great tension on the northern border, and only after his death did his family learn that he participated – as a soldier and as an officer In June 1982, the reconnaissance team was supposed to be released from the active service, and Avikam, who was an officer, had a few months left in service, organizing a “liberation trip” to the Negev, and this trip was called with his friends to the Lebanon War.First of the war, 16 Sivan 5762 (6.6.1982) Abikam fell in the purification of the central canal of the Beaufort fortress. After his fall, he was promoted to lieutenant. His friends held an evening in his memory at Kibbutz Beit Zera. A navigation race in his name takes place in the kibbutz in June, close to the date of his fall. Where the guide issued a pamphlet in memory of the fallen among them Avikam. The Golani reconnaissance unit issued a memorial booklet for its fallen soldiers.
