Vardi (Widerman), Shlomo
Son of Mordechai and Janet. He was born in Romania on March 17, 1947. He began his elementary studies in Romania and when the family immigrated to Israel in 1958 he completed his elementary studies and then continued to study at the vocational school “Amal” in Be’er Sheva in the automotive mechanics program. He was recruited in November 1965 and assigned to the Navy. Shlomo volunteered for submarine service and in January 1967 he was ordained as a diver. He proved himself to be a very responsible and moral diver. Shlomo went to England and was attached to the Dakar submarine crew, but when the submarine returned to the shores of the country, being on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection was cut off and it was not renewed. This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Military Rabbinate decided, therefore, that the date of Shlomo’s death, in the course of carrying out his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Since Shlomo was one of the missing crew members, a memorial monument was placed inside him in the memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In Beersheba, a gravestone was erected separately. In Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker,” his picture was presented. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown
