Tamir (Trento), Isaac (“Ike”)

Son of Meir and Sophie. He was born on March 8, 1944, in Yambol, Bulgaria, and immigrated to Israel in 1948 with his family, which settled in Beit Dagan. Where he attended elementary school until he reached sixth grade, and then the family moved to Jaffa and Yitzhak graduated from the Weizmann elementary school. Afterward, he studied at the Ort school for three years and then went to study at the Air Force Technical School. His main hobby was photography and to this hobby he devoted the best of his time. Yitzhak was drafted into the IDF at the end of December 1962 and volunteered for the air force, and joined the regular army in May 1965. Yitzhak married a wife and had three children: two daughters and a son, a devoted father to his children and a model husband. He was offered the opportunity to go to the United States for a year’s training and he left with his wife and children, but even he did not reveal the purpose of his mission. ), Yitzhak fell with six of his friends when their plane was hit by an enemy air-to-air missile and was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. (From the end of February 1971) until the day he fell in the line of duty, wrote in a letter of condolence to his family: “Yitzhak stood out as a soldier and a dedicated and loyal person. In all the difficulties he just smiled and received everything in good spirits. Few know the size of its role and its importance and the nature of the tasks it has carried out for the security and well-being of our country. We, his friends, who know and know him, will not forget him and will continue his path. “Isaac was alive as a hero and fell like a hero.” When Isaac was in the United States, he met many people who had learned to love him and then fallen Many of them received a letter of condolence to the family and even made a great effort to bring down his memory: a Jewish couple who had known him for only a month and heard about his fall, donated a scholarship to his name in the United States for a poor boy who was studying Torah. A man whom Yitzhak met in Denver, Colorado, donated trees to the Jewish National Fund, and his friends in Israel contributed to the house The Knesset in the village of Kadima near Netanya is a parochet of the Isaac’s Ark, a grove commemorating the shiva was planted in the Modi’in area near son of Shemen, where a monument was erected.