Ziner, Yair

Son of Nehama and Shmaryahu, was born on April 24, 1954, in Jaffa. Yair attended the Bilu Elementary School in Ramat Eliyahu. During the first two years of high school, he studied at the Kfar Haro’a yeshiva and completed high school in the religious municipal school in Rishon Letzion. Yair has read many books of Jewish history and Jewish philosophy. He was thrilled by the uniqueness and fate of the Jewish people, and marveled at the heroism of great warlords in history who led their people to great victories. Yair was gentle, good-hearted and smiling, with good judgment. Despite his shyness, he was good at joining each group and was the driving force behind it. His hobbies were painting, music and sports. At the end of 1972, Yair was drafted into the IDF and was assigned to the Artillery Corps, where the Yom Kippur War broke out, and immediately after the war, Yair went to an officers’ course and was assigned to a battalion in Sinai, Yair was appointed deputy battalion commander in Sinai, and when he finished his job he asked to return to the battalion as battalion commander. He took the position of battalion commander three days before the outbreak of the Peace for Galilee war, and made sure to visit every injured soldier or bereaved family, even to ensure that all the soldiers of the battalion would visit their injured comrades and the bereaved families home. Yair served as a battalion commander for academic studies at Tel Aviv University. He studied history and graduated with a bachelor’s degree. At the end of his studies, Yair assumed the position of Deputy Commander of the Artillery Corps. At the time, an article was published in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which found a lack in the IDF today, and Yair responded to this in a letter to the editorial board, saying that he was personally harmed by the generalization of the article: Day and night from a lecturer and her physical and mental strength for the sake of state security, rejects children’s education and nurturing a home, out of no choice and out of love for arms and war for their own sake … “He also wrote:” … you will not find officers here barking, you will find the best and most Yaffa people here. “We will do everything to make the border quiet and even prepare an army for war (and I hope that it does not break out), and most importantly, we will train good citizens for the state …” And he wrote to his friend in Lebanon: “… Life here is full of tasks and tasks that require shortening in hours of sleep, care and meticulousness on a very wide scale, and not necessarily in terms of professionalism, but scope, and sometimes Physical fatigue, but as you know me, this is what bothers me the least, that is the way of life I chose, proud to belong to this sector of the population, add to it the sense of mission involved in Zionist ideology, and you have someone ready for every mission … ” The deputy commander of the company, Yair’s vehicle boarded a mine. Yair fell on the fifteenth of Elul 5744 (12.9.1984), and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. He was 30 years old when he died. He left behind his parents, three sisters and a brother