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Avraham Lanir
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “highest ranking israeli fighter pilot to fall into enemy hands”. Today it says “lieutenant colonel in the israel air force”.
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Avraham " Avi " Lanir ( Hebrew : אברהם "אבי" לניר ; January 25, 1940 – October 1973) was a lieutenant colonel in the Israel Air Force . He was the highest-ranking Israeli fighter pilot to fall into enemy hands. His image was engraved in the Israeli consciousness as a heroic figure, as a man who gave his life under severe torture in captivity in Syria and did not divulge the secrets of the state in which he was trusted - secrets that probably touched on the subject of "the weapon that Israel never admitted to exist".
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highest ranking israeli fighter pilot to fall into enemy hands
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lieutenant colonel in the israel air force
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