Date of Birth: 18.1.1954
Place of residence: Gan-Or
Place and date of death: stabbed by Arab workers in Gan-Or hothouses, 8.3.1993
Place of burial: Kiriat Gat cemetery
Age at time of death: 39
Survived by: a wife, children, father, brothers, sisters
Uri was raised in the Moshav of Shalva near Kiriat Gat.
He grew-up and married Esther. He worked in education for several years, and was the principal of a school in Yerucham. In 1987 he moved with his family to Gan-Or, Gush Katif.
On Monday, the 8th of March 1993, the second day of Purim, Uri drove to work in his Gan-Or hothouses. When he reached the hothouses, two of his Arab workers attacked him, stabbed him to death and fled. Other workers alerted Gan-Or residents who discovered his body.
Uri was 39 when he was killed. He left behind a wife and 4 children. He was buried in the Kiriat Gat cemetery. His brother said at his funeral: “you gave the Arabs what to eat, and they butchered you.”
