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Zimmerman, Amir

Zimmerman, Amir


Ben Gavriela (Gabi) and Eliezer (Lazy). He was born on 17.7.1978 in Hadera, the brother of Meirav z “l, Alon and Shira, and until he was three years old, the family lived in Netanya and then returned to the village of Monash, where Amir was educated in the kindergarten and moshav in Beit Yitzhak. He moved to the Ben-Gurion School in Emek Hefer, where he also attended high school. After graduating from high school, in 1996, he went on a trip to Greece with friends from the class. The IDF wanted to recruit Amir to the artillery, but Amir insisted on serving in the Golani Brigade, and in fact achieved his goal with determination and perseverance and joined the IDF in November 1996 for Golani. He completed basic training as an outstanding soldier and was assigned to a “Golani” crow. He spent about a year in Lebanon. After his discharge from the army, Amir worked for several months on a long trip to the Far East, Australia and New Zealand, and after 14 months returned to Israel to participate in his sister’s shira, Amir joined the “Ofarim” And he has taught everyone that if you take life with a smile, life smiles back at you, and you have to see only the good and the positive in the person.In the second year of his studies, On February 25, 2004, after the semester exams, Amir returned to reserve duty in a company that was in operational employment Som packed. On Thursday, Adar Tss”d (26/02/2004), at 15: 5, entered Sergeant Major Amir Zimmerman and his platoon sergeant on duty at a Mishali Ilan Erez checkpoint security. Ilan, who knew the position, noticed that the gate of the junkyard, about 15 meters east of the post, was slightly open, and the two conducted a tour that yielded nothing. At 20: 6, after all the morning mist had dispersed, Amir went to the gate to check again, and when a shot approached, terrorists positioned inside the junkyard. Ilan returned fire in the direction of the terrorists and hit one of them. Within a short time additional forces arrived, carried out an attack and during the battle killed the two terrorists. On the next day, a tunnel was discovered, with the terrorists penetrating the Erez compound. In this activity Amir prevented a great disaster but paid with his life. Amir was rescued and his death was determined afterwards. Amir was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in the village of Monash, aged twenty-five and a half. Survived by his parents, brother and sister. The passage “Little Something for Thought” was written to Amir’s memory: “Too often we are afraid of what we may not be able to do, of what people might think, if we try, we give the fears our hopes, we say no, when we really want to say yes. We sit quietly, when we really want to shout, and we yell with the others when we want to shut up, why, after all, we ‘re here for just one round, we don’ t have time to be afraid, so try something you ‘ve never tried. To the basketball team of the college, jump bungee jumping in the most beautiful place in the world, travel a year in the east and then continue a little more, go to pray with Jews in Hong Kong Just to see a new place, go sell books on Saturday, take a bicycle trip just like that in the middle of the day, try whatever you want, sell Australian sunglasses in the middle of the night, take a bold step, dance to the senses as if there is no tomorrow. But you have a lot to gain, just do it, Amir knew how to do it, let’s learn from it. “

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