"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
Monday, October 24, 2011
President Peres Visits Gilad Shalit
President Peres Visits Gilad Shalit
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Pilot who flew Shalit home
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Lt.Col. R, the helicopter pilot who flew Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
from the Tel Nof air base to his Mitzpe Hila home last week requested
the mission from Air Force commander Ido Nehushtan.
Lt.Col.
R requested the mission for personal closure. He is the son of Yishai
Aviram the pilot who was forced t abandon the fighter jet with missing
Air Force navigator Ron Arad over Lebanon 25 years ago.
Throughout
the flight Lt. Col. R spoke with Shalit and circled Mitzpe Hila twice
so the soldier who could view the thousands who had gathered in the
hilltop community to welcome him home.
