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Colonel
Ilan Ramon
(
Hebrew
:
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, born
Ilan Wolferman
;
June 20
,
1954
-
February 1
,
2003
) was an
Israeli
air force
pilot
and the only Israeli
astronaut
. He was a member of the
STS-107
mission crew and he died during
Space Shuttle Columbia
disaster in 2003.
His mother was a
Holocaust
survivor (at
Auschwitz concentration camp
) and his father fought for
Israeli independence
. Ramon was married to activist
Rona Ramon
.
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