In a ceremony charged with great sadness and in an attempt to embrace the families who joined the circle of bereavement this year, on Monday 13.5.24 in Rambam we celebrated the Day of Remembrance for the fallen of Israel's systems and the victims of hostilities. During the ceremony we mentioned all the names of the 73 who fall in Israel's systems and in hostilities, among the employees of the medical center and their children their families, over the years.
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Unfortunately, during the past year, since the last Memorial Day, three martyrs have been added to Rambam's bereaved family, all three fell in the "Iron Swords" war:
- The late Corporal Alexei Shmeklov, a military officer, who fell on October 7 in the battle for the police station in Sderot, 34 years old when he was killed. His mother, Yelena Shmeklov, works as a nurse in the surgical department at Rambam.
- The late Adi Eldor, a fighter in the Magellan unit in the commando brigade, fell on 11.2.24 in the battle in Khan Yunis. He was 21 years old when he was killed. His father, Dr. Liron Eldor, is a senior physician in the plastic surgery department at Rambam. His grandfather, Prof. Yosef Itzkovitz , managed the pregnancy and childbirth system at Rambam and is considered one of the fathers of the field of fertility and the field of stem cells in Israel.
- Lt. Col. (resp.) Nathaniel Ya'akov Alkovi, the late commander of the 630th Battalion, in the Southern Brigade, was killed on 12/2/24 in a battle in the southern Gaza Strip, 36 years old. His wife, Sarit, serves as the secretary of the rheumatology institute at Rambam. His mother, the late Miriam Alkovi, worked for 41 years at Rambam, among other things as a nurse in charge of the recovery department at the medical center.
