Avi Lanir - A Short Life Story

By: Yael Yannay

This is the story of the life and death of Avi Lanir, the most senior Israeli pilot to fall into Syrian captivity, and the only one who did not return alive.
A moving, inspiring biographical tapestry woven from the memories of family members, soul mates, and comrades-in-arms.

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Book Description

Lanir died after brutal torture, without betraying the critical secret the Israeli Air Force had entrusted to his care. The body was defeated, yet the human spirit soared and triumphed. In these stormy and turbulent times, here is the story of a man whose brief spring touched the seasons of a nascent Israel.

Israeli author and editor Yael Yannay has woven a moving, inspiring biographical tapestry from the memories of family members, soul mates, and comrades-in-arms, and from the reflections of those who led Israel then—in body and in spirit. A profound, complex story: one of beauty and a vibrant life attuned to awareness— full of orders and briefings; question marks and family; love and yearning; wounds and hopes.

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