Uri Ilan

Uri Ilan

Uri Ilan (Hebrew: אורי אילן) was an Israeli soldier who committed suicide in a Syrian prison, after being captured in a mission in Damascus. [ [http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/about/History/50s/1955/1301.htm Syria returns the body of a soldier captured in Damascus] , Israel Defence Forces] He became a symbol of courage and patriotism in Israel. [ [http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=526429&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0 אורי אילן - מסר נוסף בפתקים] , Haaretz] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=7Mhr3PLTWHAC&dq=Uri+Ilan&lr=lang_en&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Reshaping the Past] ISBN 0195093550 Oxford University]

Early life

Uri Ilan was born in 1935 in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. His mother was Fayge Ilanit, a member of the First Knesset. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=HBBbY9rMxSAC&dq=Uri+Ilan&lr=lang_en&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World] , ISBN 0393048160 ] He joined the Golani infantry division in 1953, when he was only 18 years old.

Capture and Suicide

According to the Israel Defence Forces, he was captured by the Syrians in December 8 1954 near a Syrian post in the Golan Heights along with four soldiers in his team. [ [http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/about/History/50s/1955/1301.htm Syria returns the body of a soldier captured in Damascus] , IDF] The soldiers were taken into custody in Quneitra and sent to a Damascus prison for interrogation.

In the Syrian prison, they were sent to separate cells and brutally tortured. After five weeks of questioning and barbaric torture, isolated from his comrades, Uri Ilan hanged himself in his prison cell, using a rope made from the fabric of the mattress cover. In his clothing, Ilan hid nine notes addressed to his homeland, Israel, and his family. The most famous is a scrap of paper on which he wrote the Hebrew words "לא בגדתי" which means: "I did not betray". [ [http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/about/History/50s/1955/1301.htm Syria returns the body of a soldier captured in Damascus] , IDF]

Return to Israel

On March 29, 1956 the four Israeli soldiers who were captured along with Uri Ilan were returned to Israel in exchange for 40 Syrian soldiers. Uri Ilan's body was later returned to Israel. [ [http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto071620081018220239&page=2 Timeline: Israeli prisoner exchanges] Financial Times]

Ilan's suicide and the notes he left behind set off a great outpouring of grief in Israel, but also a sense of national pride. His life story became a symbol of heroism and self-sacrifice in Israel's ongoing struggle for survival.

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