Yishai, Eliezer (‘Eli’)

Son of-Haim (Victor) and Esther. He was born on May 12, 1958 in Rehovot. At the end of sixth grade, Eli continued in the junior high school at the De-Shalit School, where he studied at the Naval School in Ashdod in the ninth grade, and Eli was a graceful and cheerful child, loved by his teachers and teachers When he was 16 years old, he began working in the public relations department of Egged, and during his stay in Kfar Giladi, he was very much in touch with the adoptive family of the kibbutz, the Zamiri family, Eli joined the kibbutz as a kibbutznik and was very devoted to the animals, and they were in his care, even though he was a “foreign child”. to me He joined the Paratroopers Brigade and became a Nahal parachute unit in early May 1976. After completing basic training and after completing a parachute training course, he began the next stage of his training as an assaulting fighter On 23 Iyar 5737 (10.5.1977) Eli, who was killed in the crash of the helicopter in the Jordan Valley, killed 54 soldiers on his birthday (May 12, 1977) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rehovot, at the age of nineteen.