A military spokesman today disclosed the name of the Israeli pilot who bailed out over the Gulf of Suez and was lost after his jet was hit by anti-aircraft fire on Sept. 9. He was identified as Maj. Hagai Ronnen, 31.
He was shot down in the course of Israel’s 10-hour tank and armored infantry raid on Egyptian military installations on the west shore of the Gulf of Suez and is still missing. Apart from one wounded soldier, Maj. Ronnen appears to have been the only Israeli casualty in the operation which left at least 150 Egyptian soldiers dead.
Reserve Sgt. Bruno Sharef, who was killed by Egyptian fire in the Suez Canal zone Tuesday, was buried here today. Sgt. Sharef, 38, came to Israel in 1946 under the Youth Aliya program. His father was killed by the Nazis. Yosef Klarman, head of Youth Aliya, announced in Jerusalem yesterday that a monument will be built there to memorialize all Youth Aliya graduates killed in Israeli wars since 1948.
A Lydda military tribunal pronounced a life sentence today on Ibrahim Samaro, a 26-year-old Arab from Nablus who was one of the terrorist group that planned the bombing of the Hebrew University cafeteria last March and planted the explosives. The prosecutor said he asked for life imprisonment only because there is no capital punishment in Israel.
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