When a son was born to Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog and his wife, Didi, in 1984, there was no question the boy would be named for Almog’s brother Eran Avrutsky – a tank commander who died during the Yom Kippur War while waiting a week to be evacuated from where he was wounded in combat.
The newborn Eran, his parents hoped, would compensate for a life cut tragically short. But it was not to be. The baby was profoundly disabled, lacking fibers to connect the two halves of his brain. He learned to walk, but not to speak.
Almog was determined that his brother’s namesake would not be left in the field to die. And despite the overwhelming intensity of caring for the boy for the 23 years of his life, Almog took on this mission for the disabled children of others as well, through his chairmanship of ALEH Negev.
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