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Ilan Ramon’s Rabbi Honors Columbia at Space Center Ceremony
| ilan ramon cause of death | In 2003, however, first Israeli astronaut Ramon's attempt to bring a Torah into space and back on the Columbia would end tragically. |
| ilan ramon death | This young man was the world’s first Israeli astronaut, Col. Ilan Ramon. |
| ilan ramon son | Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli to go into space. |
On this day in 2003: Ilan Ramon dies aboard Columbia Space ...
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- Ilan’s Jewish pride and his resolve to keep the Torah thousands of miles from earth, left a very strong impact on our community and on Jews all over the world.
Ilan Ramon
Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (1954–2003)
Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון; pronounced[(ʔ)iˈlanʁaˈmon], born Ilan Wolfferman (אילן וולפרמן); June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003)[1] was an Israelifighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut. He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members were killed when the spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry. At 48, Ramon was the oldest member of the crew. He is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which was awarded posthumously.[2]
Biography
Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to Tonya (1929–2003) and Eliezer Wolfferman (1923–2006), a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, Ramon grew up in Beersheba. His father was from Germany, and his family fled Nazi persecution in 1935. His mother and grandmother were from Poland, and were Holocaust survivors, having bee
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- Ilan’s Jewish pride and his resolve to keep the Torah thousands of miles from earth, left a very strong impact on our community and on Jews all over the world.
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Mission Columbia: Meet Israel's First Astronaut, Ilan Ramon
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- Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon holds up a miniature Torah scroll during Columbia's final mission in , as fellow astronaut Laurel Clark and mission commander Rick Husband look on.
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- Ramon also took with him a microfiche copy of the Torah given to him by Israeli president Moshe Katsav and a miniature Torah scroll (from the Holocaust) that was given to him by Prof.