Ilan ben Shulamit and Moshe, was born on 12.1.1954 in Herzliya his mother Shulamit z “l, a teacher, and his father Moshe, an employee of the Ministry of Defense. His childhood is normal: kindergarten, elementary school, members of Hanoar Haoved. At a young age, he is kind, devoted to his friends and very fond of his surroundings. When he was eleven years old, in the summer of 1965, when he and his parents moved to Rome, some of the basic features of it were revealed: a comfortable and good temper, a compromise with the reality and the positive fulfillment of the new situation, even if it was perceived as negative. When his father was offered a trip abroad, and his family was asked to express their opinion, he was against the trip, and was the only one in the family whose negative opinion was decisive and resolute. And the family’s separation from the family (his elder brother remained in Israel), he expressed his opinion in the early discussions, which he repeated in the family council, but when most of the family expressed their positive opinion, he accepted the verdict. , But he has also begun to adapt to it – if necessary – then perform, that is to say, travelers, and if you travel, you should see the charge of traveling The difficulties of adaptation were above and beyond the earlier concerns – the language of the environment – Italian, and the language of the school – English, while Ilan, in preparation for the trip, learned only the Latin alphabet. The regime in the English school – severe and rigid, local customs – is foreign to him, not a yard, and he did not condemn playing with them, and his friends from Israel, with whom he was deeply attached, are not, and when they talk about the difficulties he smiles. They make life difficult. There is no argument, no grudge, no complaint. Within a few weeks he adapts, integrates and becomes an organic part of his new environment. When he returned to Israel two years later, he entered eighth grade and again encountered difficulties, especially because of the space created by the knowledge of Jewish subjects and the backwardness created by the knowledge of the Israeli curriculum. However, despite the fears, he is quickly overcoming the material and successfully completing the survey. After the completion of the School of Engineering at Tel Aviv University, the recruitment deadline was reached. His ambition – the naval commando, but due to the high results he obtained in the psychotecan test – was placed in additional tests for a pilot course, and passed them. Although this is not exactly what he had planned, “great” he said “I’ll be a pilot.” During the rigorous medical examinations, a slight visual impairment was discovered and his candidacy for the pilot course and was removed. When asked where he wants to be stationed, he returns to his first love, the naval commando. Again, “great.” The tests are hard and exhausting. In one of the tests, he was not physically fit and fainted. great! he says, “has proven adherence to the cause by exhausting all my physical strength.” But after another test, when he ran on gravel, a shoe pioneer, his legs swollen with wounds getting into his shoes, and we could not walk on the journey that ended the tests, he dropped out. For a few days he was a little depressed, but when he was stationed in the armor, he was again radiant, cheerful again. “The beauty of the armor is the strength!” Every stage after basic training – professions, training and training – and the joy that accompanies him, every step and love grows to the tank, to the corps. How proud he was of his tank when his parents visited him at the base; how he stroked the eye and the hand with every part of it. How he did not rest until he saw them dangling through the turret into the belly of the tank . “wonderful!,” he exclaimed, “a few more exercises, and my parents can be enlisted in the Armored Corps. Only beauty he saw around him, beauty and joy radiated over his surroundings. On the eleventh of the daughter(7.10.1973), Ilan was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital on the home front, and died of his wounds on the 13th of Tishrei 5734 (9.10.1973) and was brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. He left behind a mother who was killed a year later, a father, brother and sister after being killed and raised to the rank of sergeant: “Sergeant Ilan served in an armored unit as a tank crew. A task was placed in the area of the Suez Canal, in the central sector of the Suez Canal, aimed at fighting the enemy who crossed the Suez Canal.
