U.ofM.
Student, Descendent of Sephardic Family, Killed in War
One of the five Israeli cation and Culture and was
students at the University in charge of staging Orien-
of Michigan who returned tal celebrations. He was the
homo to fight in the Yom scion of a long-settled Sep-
Kippur War was killed in hardic family, and a great
battle. Another was wound- future had been predicted for
ed. him.
Uri Maimon, 27, who was
Maimon is survived by his
born in Haifa, died in the mother; an older brother
Sinai desert near the Suez
Canal. A graduate of Hebrew
University, he had come to
Ann Arbor at the beginning
of the semester to study for
his masters degree.
He left for Israel on the
evening after Yom Kippur,
the same day that war had
broken out. A paratrooper,
Maimon went straight to his
• and his family didn t
t .1 know that he was in
Israel.
Maimon had been workin
in the Israel Ministry of Ed u-
Tzvi, who received his PhD
degree from the University
of Michigan; and a younger
sister, all of whom reside
in Jerusalem. Ile had follow.
ed his brother to Ann Arbor
and had hoped to have his
sister study at U. of M.
Nearly 50 Israelis and
friends attended a memo-
rial service for Maimon at
the home of Niry and Ehud
Shamay in Ann Arbor.
Pinchas Meron, 25, a stu-
dent of mechanical engineer-
ing at U. of M. whose family
lives on a moshav near Na-
tanya, was wounded in a
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tank battle in the Sinai, but
now is back at his studies.
Other Israelis who left to
participate in the war in-
cluded Alex and Niry Livnot.
Alex, a captain in the Israel
Defense Forces, and Niry, a
social worker, are back at
U. of M.
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Sinai Battle
Related by
Israeli
Pinchas Meron, a 25-year-
old Israeli student at the Uni-
versity of Michigan's school
of engineering who was
wounded in a tank battle in
the Sinai, said that the Egyp-
tian soldiers were drugged
on pep pills and that Egyp-
tian officers had warned
their men that if they tried
to flee, they would be shot.
Meron, a lieutenant in the
armored corps, arrived in Is-
rael on Oct. 10 and spent
only three hours with his
family when he was sent to
his tank battalion. His unit
consisting of 25 tanks en•
gaged in a battle with hun-
dreds of Egyptian tanks.
Thown out of the tank,
which he commanded, when
a missile struck nearby, the
wounded Miron managed to
get back in the tank and con-
tinued in battle, lasting far
into the night.
"I saw hundreds of bodies
of Egyptians," said Meron.
"In the middle of the corpses,
I saw a man sitting. We came
closer and discovered that he
was an Egyptian who had
been wounded and left be-
hind by his comrades. We
picked him up and tok him
to the rear.
"In another incident. we ,
heard a noise, then noticed
a man crawling toward us.
We withheld our fire when
we saw his uniform was not
Egyptian and when he shout-
ed 1 am an Israeli'."
He turned out to be a pilot
who had parachuted behind
Egyptian lines, hiding him-
self and escaned in the dark-
ness. "In another unit, we
were told of a soldier who
hand been blinded and an-
other who had been wounded
',the legs, but had man-
to escape by helping
each other."
Meron was taken to a hos-
pital in Beersheba and then
to Ashkelon. iIe came back
to Ann Arbor and his studies
last week. "This is my third
war," said Meron. "I was
in the armored corps in the
Six-Day War, and I was in
the War of Attrition—but this
was the hardest of all, be-
cause, although we easily
knocked out the Egyptian
tanks, the missiles were.an-
other thing, especially the
personal anti-tank missiles
carried by the Egyptian
soldiers."
Meron attended the Uni-
versity of the Negev in Beer-
sheba for two years. Brought
to Israel when he was a year
old, he and his family live
in a moshav near-Natanya.
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