Yarom, Meir

Son of Moshe and Rachel. He was born on October 18, 1948 in a military hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus, where the parents were exiled from Israel when they boarded the ship “Galia”. Meir grew up during the great immigration of survivors from Europe and during the war with our Arab neighbors. When the parents returned to Israel and settled in Afula, Meir was educated there and attended elementary and high school. He was a good friend of his friends who loved and loved him for his kindness, initiative and help to others. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Air Force Technical School because he wanted to study the profession of an aircraft mechanic before serving in the IDF, but before he enlisted, he concluded that the service was not for him, because he did not have this kind of service (His mother was in the death camps) and survived, his father fought in the forests of Europe against the Nazi devil, his uncle was killed in the War of Independence in the kibbutz Manara), and he volunteered for the naval commando unit when he joined the IDF in August 1966. From there he passed The submarine squadron and this type of service found a true fusion between two forms of service – both as a soldier in the first line of fire and as a professional. As a good and responsible diver he found his place. He loved the team and the commanders and was not deterred by any hard work. His kindness, his cheerfulness, and his friendship were fond of his friends and commanders, who appreciated him for his willingness to reach out to others. At the beginning of his service in the submarine squadron he served in the “Crocodile”, where he served during the war, and was ordered to go to England to bring the Dakar submarine home, and Meir was one of the Simcha divers to be part of this submarine crew. In one of his letters: “There are Yaffa and rich countries with order, rule and tradition of centuries; But for the Jews there is no place but in Israel! “- a phrase that testifies to his great love for Israel, his plan was that when he completed his service in the IDF, when the security situation allowed him to continue his studies in history and Judaism were very close to his Lev. But his plans were not realized, because one day, on the 25th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968), when the submarine was on its way to the port of the house on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with it was severed and again was not renewed. The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Meir’s passing, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. As Meir was one of the missing members of the team, a memorial monument was placed inside him in the memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. 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 place of burial place is unknown.