Meir, son of Sarah and Tzadok, was born in Moshav Ahiezer on the 11th of Adar 5713 (February 26, 1953) to a large family of Yemenite Jews. His childhood was different from other kids his age. When he was three years old, his father began teaching him to read and write. At the age of four he had already read books and memorized mishnayot and fiver. That is why they used to call him Meir HaGaon or Meir HaTzadik. He studied elementary school at the Uziel School in Ramat Hasharon and his teachers, who were impressed by his great abilities, asked him to raise it in two classes. When he was nine years old, he took his own initiative to study in the small yeshiva in the afternoon. The rabbi, who used to award prizes to outstanding students, found himself awarding all the prizes to Meir. When he reached sixth grade, Meir decided to study English fluently and enrolled in an English department, which he admired outside of school hours. At that time he also began to devote several hours a day to physical training. Meir is endowed with extraordinary diligence, willpower and perseverance are astonishing for his youth, and most of all has the tremendous eagerness to learn and know and enrich his soul and opinion, which are rich anyway. In a psychotechnical test conducted in the eighth year of his studies, Meyer was discovered as a gifted child. He was accepted to study in the real-estate program at the Merom Zion high school in Jerusalem, and there, too, his achievements were excellent. Meir loved his family and treated his parents as friends in every respect. During the short vacations he received, he worked in the “Olive Tree” factory to assist in the household’s agriculture. In the early mornings he would wake up early, to dig the family’s garden and help his brothers and sisters learn. Meir’s face was always full of laughter. Any problem or quarrel would be dismissed with a joke, a smile on his face. Meir was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of August 1971. His teachers recommended that he go to the academic reserve and he refused. He also refused to accept his parents’ request to choose a non-dangerous force and volunteered to serve in a paratroopers unit. “If I do not volunteer and others do not volunteer, who would? During his service in the IDF, he took part in the course for NCOs, in the course of team commanders, in the artillery course and in the infantry commander course. He passed the last course with his leg torn, but he did not give up his hard training and finished the course with honors. He was also injured twice, but still refused to leave his unit. His commanders wanted to send him to officers’ course, but Meir had other plans. He was preparing to specialize in electrical engineering at the Technion in Haifa. His friends in the unit know many stories about Meir. Orly, the unit’s clerk, said: “Meir had something special: he was pretty modest, deep devotion and high morale, and I remember how Meir would wake up every morning to put on tefillin, and all the soldiers of the unit remember the great experience when he sang Sabbath songs. ” one day he came back sick with a sore throat when I asked him why did he come back, he replied,” If I had not come, another friend would not get a vacation. “His friend, Moshe, told him:” Meir was an example of the best in man. His devotion to the unit and to the work was beyond all acceptable. I remember how he would run back and forth, sweating and dripping even during the hot summer days, and working tirelessly. Meir could not rest for a moment. When he was not running around among the various teams, he would sit in his tent and read books of psychology and history. Meir had a great concentration of all the good qualities in man. “During the Yom Kippur War, Meir fought together with eleven other members of his elite artillery unit in the Golan Heights on October 7, 1973. During a heavy artillery battle The unit encountered an ambush of tanks and twelve of its members, one of the best among the soldiers who fell and shone among them, and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.Promoted to sergeant. Survived by his parents, six sisters and three brothers. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote: “Meir was a devoted soldier and an excellent friend, and he was loved by his comrades and commanders.” The family donated a Torah scroll and a library to the synagogue in Ramat Hasharon; In memory of Meir and his eleven friends who fell with him, a monument was erected on the Golan Heights.
