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Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space Hero

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This is a wonderful written and pictorial biography, a great lesson for children, and a memorial for an international Israeli hero.

Ramon took his Hebrew surname from a gorgeous crater near his childhood home in Beersheva, where he attended school with the niece of a Holocaust victim, Petr Ginz, whose drawing of a moonscape he carried aboard the fateful last slight of the space shuttle Columbia.

Ilan also took with him into space a miniature Torah, with which Prof. Joachim Joseph secretly became Bar Mitzvah while imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen.

Miraculously, although the Columbia blew apart on reentry to the Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003 Ilan Ramon's Israeli Air Force flag was recovered, along with his body, which was buried at Moshav Nahalal in Israel, on Feb. 12, 2003.

May Ilan Ramon always send blessings to his people, and the world, from a distant star--and from the asteroid commemorating his life, from between Mars and Jupiter.

--Alyssa A. Lappen