Daily Archives: February 2, 2003
A Tribute to Ilan Ramon’s Legacy
In 1981, IAF Col. Ilan Ramon flew one of the F-16 jets that blew up the Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak. In so doing he saved the country and perhaps the entire world from...
Locate Torah Scroll From Bergen Belsen That Fell to Earth with the Columbia Shuttle...
One of the items that Col. Ilan Ramon was carrying with him in a protective casing was a small Torah scroll (Five Books of Moses) that had survived the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, as...
“I do not know how to break the news of Ilan Ramon’s death… ...
I do not know how to break the news of Ilan Ramon's death and the Space Shuttle crash to my five-year-old son, Gilad. Like all Israeli school children, Ilan had become his hero.
Sixteen days...
Ilan Ramon: Why He Volunteered to Be a Pilot to Bomb the Iraqi Reactor
In 1981, Ilan Ramon was on the team that was to bomb the Iraqi reactor.
His commanding officer, Gen. Yadlin, spoke on Sunday evening, February 2 on Israeli TV on the "Seven and a Half"...