Colonel Ilan Ramon ( Hebrew : ???? ???? , 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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• Official biography at NASA
• Photo of Ilan Ramon with Chabad Rabbi Zvi Konikov Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Ilan Ramon STS-107 Crew Memorial Archived 2008-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Ilan Ramon Memorial pages in the Israel Science and Technology Directory
• Spacefacts biography of Ilan Ramon
• Excerpts from Ilan Ramon's diary Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Ilan Ramon at Find a Grave

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