Ben Michal and Israel. Born on August 13, 1977 in Haifa, a brother to Ilan, a cute, plump child with a smile on his lips, who grew up in Kiryat Ata and began his studies at the Hatzvi Israel Elementary School and graduated from high school He grew up and became a young man who was pleasant, loyal and devoted to his parents and friends, loved to help with everything, and always knew how to conquer the hearts of those around him, “Lior was active in sports from an early age, he practiced in a gym and loved to play soccer, but devoted most of his time to tennis, the White Sports, which he worked for many hours on time He studied tennis from an early age with his father Israel, who was a tennis coach, and he wrote many personal letters, and also expressed his thoughts about life in general and his daily life in particular, and so Lior wrote in his diary : “one moment/! Just a minute / If only I could, / Just one minute / I would do everything different, / or at least this thing / Just turn back the wheel / Not much in just a few moments / Just to change one thing, / Small mistake / But all that remains is to cry and be sorry. “In March 1996, Lior enlisted in the IDF, to the Paratroopers Brigade. He successfully completed the combat path, including a parachuting course and a paramedics course, and served as a combat soldier and medic. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in July 1998. On February 26, 1999, Lior was killed in a road accident near Givat Olga, riding on the motorcycle he loved. He was twenty-one and a half years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Ata cemetery. Survived by his parents and brother. “I went up on a mountain full of flowers, / There were flowers of all kinds, / I had to choose, / Shall I take red or black, or I will just take them all, but here is another flower, , / Hey flower Why so far /? And he does not answer shy and quiet to him, / He sits and waits, / Looks at me and my flower, / But the root is hard and he clings, Go, / for me to enjoy and be safe for the world. ” “The flowers are no longer blooming, / The people are no longer laughing, / The sadness is in the world / And if you stop for a moment, you will see only lifeless figures / Only moving bodies. This is the place where nobody wants to go. Flowers, / and no trees, / there are no relatives, but there is only death, / where you will go fast, / if you do not watch out and mistakes do not / otherwise you will be burned. ” Michal, Lior’s mother, wrote: “Dark black, abyss, death and bereavement, everything is over – all these words, all the meanings, and no one or all of them can express the bereavement … A year, , A year of yearning and yearning, a year without hope, taken from me, dear to me, and I was left here to hurt, I was standing in front of a situation around her, a lot of love, trying to think of a white screen, what you could tell me before you left. You knew how great I loved you, did you know how proud I was, leaving us a lot of pain, for there is no cure for emptiness. ” To commemorate Lior, his parents renovated the tennis club at the Hapoel House in Kiryat Ata.
