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	Ilan Ramon
		Ilan Ramon (June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Ramon, of Tel Aviv, Israel and Houston, Texas) started astronaut training with NASA in 1997 and was the first Israeli in space.
		Ramon was a Colonel and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, with thousands of hours flying experience.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/il/Ilan_Ramon.html (170 words)

	Ilan Ramon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון) (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force and later the first Israeli astronaut.
		Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed along with the rest of the shuttle's crew when it disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Ramon Airbase (Formerly Matred Airbase), in the southwest of Beer Sheba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilan_Ramon (739 words)

	Ilan Ramon
		Ilan Ramon was born June 20,1954, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
		In 1997, Colonel Ramon was selected by NASA to serve as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
		Although Ramon described himself as a secular Jew, special kosher meals were made for his journey and he consulted with rabbis before leaving about the proper way to observe Shabbat from space.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Ilanramon.html (571 words)

	Israel Astronaut Ilan Ramon
		Ilan, the son of a mother who survived the Holocaust, and a father who is a veteran of the War of Independence, was a courageous combat pilot and an outstanding officer, and was among the best of our sons and warriors.
		Ramon is a soft-spoken man conscious of the importance of symbols and history, and the role he plays in both.
		Ilan Ramon is survived by his wife, Rona, their four children - Assaf (14), Tal (12), Yiftah (9) and Noa (5) - as well as his parents, Eliezer and Tova Wolferman, brother and sister.
	www.israelnewsagency.com /israelastronautilanramon.html (2890 words)

	FLORIDA TODAY: Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ramon's mother survived the Auschwitz death camp, though other family members were slain.
		Ilan Ramon was celebrated as the first Israeli astronaut, and especially in his home country, he was the focus of a maelstrom of attention as the Columbia flight approached.
		Ramon's main responsibility on the shuttle was the Israeli experiment that studied dust storms' effect on climate and unusual lightning phenomena.
	www.floridatoday.com /columbia/bios/ilanramon.htm (385 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israel mourns loss of its first astronaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ramon, 48, was an air force colonel and the son of a Holocaust survivor.
		Ramon's wife, Rona, and their four children, who have lived in Texas for several years while Ramon prepared for the flight, were at Cape Canaveral for the landing.
		Ramon also was one of the fighter pilots who destroyed an unfinished, French-built nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981, a senior Israeli government official said last month on condition of anonymity.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-02-01-shuttle-bio-ramon_x.htm (906 words)

	Col. Ilan Ramon
		Ramon recognized the impact his achievements were having on the people in Israel, who have been buffeted by two years of Palestinian attacks that have killed about 700 Israelis.
		Ramon was born on June 20, 1954, in Tel Aviv, and received a bachelor of science degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Tel Aviv in 1987.
		One of the main experiments Ramon was involved in was the filming and tracking of dust particles from sandstorms in the Sahara Desert, and their impact on the climate and environment.
	www.vepachedu.org /Col__Ilan_Ramon.html (1000 words)

	Abarbanel Wines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ilan Ramon ZL, 48, a colonel in Israel's air force and the first Israeli in space who was one of the seven astronauts on the space shuttle Columbia is seen in this undated photo from NASA.
		Ramon was the personification of Herzl and Jabotinsky's "New Jew," while at the same time having a strong foundation in the heritage of our fathers.
		Ilan Ramon carried with him a miniature Torah scroll which Dr. Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University, (who was overseeing an experiment aboard the space shuttle), lent to him.
	www.kosher-wine.com /ilanramon.shtml (809 words)

	CNN.com - Israel grieving death of first astronaut - Feb. 4, 2003
		Ramon, 48, a career military man, dropped a bomb that destroyed a nuclear plant being built in Iraq during an Israeli raid in 1981.
		Ilan Ramon and his friends on the space shuttle were victims of science, the progress and aspiration of all of us to a better life on Earth.
		Ramon's widow said their family remembers him as an optimist and a hero who died with six other talented and unique crew members.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.reax/index.html (1019 words)

	Ilan Ramon Was A Real-Life Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ilan Ramon (Far right, top row of photo) was a real-life hero, who perceived his mission as a symbol of peace for all humanity.
		Ilan was a bona fide hero for the whole Jewish world, and for the State of Israel.
		Ilan had taken with him into space a mezuzah that was to have been consecrated in a place of honor at the Israel Air Force Center.
	www.rense.com /general34/ilanramonhero.htm (621 words)

	SPACE.com -- Israel Mourns Space Shuttle Disaster
		Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, was selected as a payload specialist for the STS-107 mission in 1997.
		Ramon's wife, Rona, and their four children, who have been living in Texas for several years as Ramon prepared for the flight, were at Cape Canaveral for the landing.
		Ramon was one of the fighter pilots who destroyed an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981, a senior Israeli government official said last month on condition of anonymity.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/sts107_israel_030201.html (974 words)

	JVibe --> israel
		Ilan's mother was a Holocaust survivor and his father fought in Israel's War of Independence.
		What made Ilan Ramon so remarkable was that everything he did was done as a Zionist, as an Israeli, and, most importantly, as a Jew.
		Ilan Ramon was the embodiment of Jewish pride.
	www.jvibe.com /israel/ilan_ramon.shtml (1233 words)

	Ilan Ramon Biography
		Ilan Ramon (June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Ramon's mother and grandmother survived imprisonment in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
		Aboard STS-107, Ramon carried a pencil sketch, "Moon Landscape", which was drawn by 14-year-old Peter Ginz who was killed in Germany's Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ramon_Ilan.html (638 words)

	Ilan Ramon's legacy
		Ramon saved us this time not by clearing our skies of the threat of nuclear attack, but by reminding us of who we are and of what we can accomplish if we only have faith in ourselves.
		Ramon made clear at every opportunity that he went to outer space, not simply as a citizen of the State of Israel, but as a Jew.
		Ilan Ramon holds a kiddush cup during a televised press conference from Space Shuttle Columbia.
	www.science.co.il /Ilan-Ramon/Glick-20030201.asp (595 words)

	NASA - Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
		Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force, was a fighter pilot who was the only payload specialist on STS-107.
		Ramon, as a member of the Red Team, was the prime crewmember for the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX), a multispectral camera that measured small dust particles (dust aerosols) in the atmosphere over the Mediterranean and the Saharan coast of the Atlantic.
		Ramon was selected as a Payload Specialist by the Israeli Air Force in 1997 and approved by NASA in 1998.
	www.nasa.gov /columbia/crew/profile_ilanr.html (156 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Israeli astronaut carried nation's dreams
		When it was announced that Colonel Ilan Ramon would represent Israel on the US space shuttle mission, he gave a troubled country something to cheer about.
		Ramon was not the first Jew in space; others who went before him include Judy Resnik, who was killed in the Challenger disaster in 1986.
		Ramon's own mother Tonya Wolferman was a survivor of the Nazi death camp.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2716645.stm (527 words)

	Being Jewish - Fall 2001 - Ilan Ramon - An Israeli We Can All Look Up To
		Far from regular, Ilan Ramon, along with his six astronaut colleagues, were of course exceptional people, and now sadly in their tragic deaths, they inspire us as heroes.
		Ramon: It is an exciting time for me. First of all, because space is exciting and to be here in training...to know closely almost all the astronauts -- every mission that they fly -- to know at least one or two very closely.
		Ramon: It's called Mediex, which stands for Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiments and it deals with dust air aerosols, which are tiny little particles from dust storms that are moving with wind and weather in the atmosphere formed in the Sahara desert over the Mediterranean Sea and also over the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.beingjewish.org /magazine/fall2001/article3.html (2144 words)

	Memorials to the Columbia Space Shuttle Crew
		Ramon joined the space shuttle mission as a payload specialist, running an experiment that tracks dust particles from sandstorms.
		Born in Tel Aviv and raised in Beer Sheva, Ramon served with distinction as a fighter pilot in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
		Ramon’s father, Eliezer Wolferman, was reading some of those messages live on Israeli TV when NASA lost contact with the astronauts.
	www.diodon349.com /General_Stuff/STS-107_Ilan_Ramon.htm (578 words)

	Ilan Ramon Memorial - Ramon Point \| Space Shuttle Columbia Inukshuk Memorials \| NASA Haughton-Mars Project
		The Ramon Inukshuk was erected during a harrowing 11-hour roundtrip quad ATV (all-terrain vehicle) traverse between 7 pm Aug 5 and 6 am Aug 6, 2004, through dense fog and under the midnight Sun, between the HMP Base Camp and Cape Canaveral located over 25 miles north of base.
		The Ramon Inukshuk was erected by Camille Desportes (Mars Institute), Robbie Kakkee (Grise Fiord), Pascal Lee (NASA HMP PI), and Randy Pijamini (Grise Fiord).
		Note: The glass jar that was to contain Ilan Ramon's bio and patches broke during the ride, hence its replacement in situ by a sealing plastic bag, pending replacement by a sturdier container in the Summer of 2005.
	www.marsonearth.org /107/ramon.html (227 words)

	Jewish National Fund: Ilan Ramon
		February 1, 2005, is the second anniversary of the tragic death of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who perished together with the crew of the Columbia space shuttle exactly two years ago.
		As he was encircling the earth, Ilan Ramon sent out a dramatic call to Jews all over the world during his talk with Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon: "I would like to say one more thing, Mr.
		After the tragic accident, JNF redoubled its efforts to realize Ilan Ramon's dream by launching a global campaign to plant trees throughout Israel, in addition to a special tree-planting project in Israeli Air Force bases.
	www.jnf.org /site/PageServer?pagename=Ilan_Ramon (352 words)

	Special Exhibit in Honor of Israeli Astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon
		Ramon took a replica of the drawing, produced according to NASA specifications.
		Also featured are photos of Ramon and Ginz; and from Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names the Page of Testimony for Petr Ginz that was filled out by his sister; and a Page of Testimony filled out by Ramon’s mother for a family member.
		Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force, contacted Yad Vashem requesting a Holocaust related item to take with him on his launch into space on the shuttle Columbia, due to the significance of the Holocaust to him as a Jew and as an Israeli.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/press_room/press_releases/ilan_ramon.html (700 words)

	For Ilan Ramon: with Gratitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But for the skill and courage of Ilan Ramon and his fellow pilots, not only Israel, but the whole world, would long ago have been held hostage by a nuclear-armed madman.
		Ilan was one of those blessed by God with remarkable gifts: first in his high school class, first in pilot training, in the first group of ten selected to train in the F-16, first in his astronaut training cohort.
		That is the image of the Ilan?s wife Rona and their four children staring at the screen charting their father?s return to earth, anticipating the jubilation of his return as a conquering hero, and then suddenly seeing the screen go blank as all contact is lost.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /amechad/ramon.shtml (1176 words)

	A tribute to Col. Ilan Ramon
		The tragic death of Col. Ilan Ramon in space yesterday prompted me to prepare this time line and short lesson on his life and accomplishments.
		Colonel Ilan Ramon was one such Israeli hero and he will be remembered for his heroism not only as the first Israeli astronaut in space but also for his patriotism, his IAF career and his Jewish pride.
		Ramon brought with him into space: a Kiddush cup, a mezuzah, Book of Psalms, Chumash, a picture drawn by 14 year old Peter Ginz who was murdered in Auschwitz Death camp in 1944.
	www.etni.org.il /tragedy/ilantribute.htm (508 words)

	Ilan Ramon - The First Israeli Astronaut
		Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) that was launched on January 16, 2003.
		Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force, is a fighter pilot who will be the only payload specialist on STS-107.
		Ramon, as a member of the Red Team, will be the prime crew member for the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX), a multispectral camera that will measure small dust particles (dust aerosols) in the atmosphere over the Mediterranean and the Saharan coast of the Atlantic.
	www.science.co.il /Ilan-Ramon (188 words)

	Ilan Ramon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ramon will already be able to see the first 13 trees that JNF planted as a response to his request.
		With the tragic deaths of Ilan and his fellow astronauts, Ilan's wish to see the land of Israel blooming with millions of new trees, forests so thick that one could see them from space, takes on new meaning.
		Plant a tree for Ilan and his fellow astronauts, may all their memories be blessed.
	www.unipress.com /crazy/FHP/ilan.html (268 words)

	NPR : Profile : Israel Mourns The Loss Of Its First Astronaut, Ilan Ramon
		Ramon's brother, Gadi, who owns a pub in northern Israel, had planned a party to celebrate his brother's safe return last night.
		Ramon's wife, Rona, and his four children have been living in Florida since 1998 when he began his training.
		Ramon sent e-mails from the space shuttle to his family and friends in Israel.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesun/transcripts/2003/feb/030202.gradstein.html (527 words)

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