Tomer, Ahuva

Daughter of Reba and Boris. Ahuva was born in Russia on October 14, 1957. Sister to David. The family immigrated to Israel in 1960. In November 1982 Ahuva enlisted in the Israel Police. She took an officers’ course, and over the years she advanced to the top of the service. Her last position was the headquarters of the Haifa station, with the rank of brigadier general. Ahuva lives in the settlement of Manot in the Western Galilee with her partner, Dan. Ahuva fell in operational activity by burning the Carmel Forests. On Thursday, 25 Kislev, on the 2 nd of December 2010, a forest fire burned on Mount Carmel, always green. The fire, known as the “Carmel disaster”, the largest in the country’s history, destroyed a forest, grove and residential buildings in a large area of ​​the Carmel Park and surrounding communities. About seventeen thousand people were evicted from their homes, close to twenty-five thousand dunams and millions of trees burned. About a third of Kibbutz Beit Oren houses went up in flames and dozens of other homes in the Ein Hod Artists Village and the Yemin Orde Youth Village. Only three days later did the fire forget. In the hours following the outbreak of the fire, strong winds blew the flames, which quickly spread to the Hik River, the Har Alon reserve, Damon Prison, Shukf Mountain Nature Reserve and Kibbutz Beit Oren. Due to grave concern for human life, it was decided to evacuate prisoners from Damon Prison and then to Carmel Prison. The officers’ bus and the officers of the officers’ training course of the Israel Prison Service (IPS), Class A. At 15:30, the cadets’ bus moved between ancient quarries and Beit Oren, followed by police cars. The fire broke through the walls of the bus, huge walls of fire blocked the traffic artery, seized everything and burned at the top of every shred of life, killing forty-four men and women, thirty-seven of them cadets of the course, , Three firefighters and three police officers She was taken to a hospital but died four days later, on December 6, 2010. Ahuva was fifty-three years old in the fall, and was buried in the military cemetery in Haifa. A brother and a partner, was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Inspector General of the Israel Police after her fall, and her lover wrote: “She sacrificed herself to save human life in the Carmel Forest disaster.” Those who perished in the fire disaster Are commemorated in a monument built in the Carmel Forest, near Kibbutz Beit Oren. The Israeli police launched a ship called “Carmel” in memory of the three police officers who fell in the fire, among them Ahuva.