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Sit down, Amir

Sit down, Amir


Ben Ruth and Shlomo. He was born on Sunday, June 1, 1973. In Ramat Gan, after completing his elementary studies at the Yahalom School in Ramat Gan, he studied at the ORT high school in mechanics, where he worked at an agricultural bank in Tel Aviv. He loved all the people around him and did not deprive anyone, he stood out in his kindness and loved to help everyone, and Amir loved and greatly admired his parents and brothers, and often said to his parents: “I am lucky that you are my parents.” Motorcycles, and music Amir was very fond of life, had a brilliant sense of humor, was very fond of joking, always with a smile on his face. And was assigned to serve as a truck driver in the IDF’s Lt.-Col.’s School of Maintenance, and his commanders testify that he was an exemplary soldier, loved by all his friends in the unit, and always ready to help and help Amir fell during his duty on 26 Kislev 5759 (3 December 1991.) A military vehicle with a crane was sent on the same day to rescue a soldier who could not cross the Irish bridge on Nahal Netof near Modi’in, which was flooded due to heavy rains Amir joined the driver and another soldier as a hitchhiker. The truck drifted and overturned, and its three passengers drifted away and disappeared. The driver managed to get out wounded, but Amir and the permanent man, Maj. Natan Rousseau, were not found, and the IDF searched them vigorously. After three days, on December 6, 1991, Amir’s body was found. The body of Sergeant Major Natan Russo was found after a week, and Amir was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, leaving behind his parents, sister Sigal and two brothers, Yaron and Gal.

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