Ilan Ramon's diary was revealed for the first time in a movie on Channel 2

A film directed by Naftali Glicksberg will reveal tonight, on Channel 2 for the first time, excerpts from Ilan Ramon's personal diary that survived the disaster

Ilan Ramon's diary will be revealed tonight for the first time in a movie on Channel 2

Avi Blizovsky

A film directed by Naftali Glicksberg, will reveal tonight, on Channel 2 for the first time, excerpts from Ilan Ramon's personal diary that survived the disaster.

Space.com, the news site for space affairs, reports that sections of the diary were found among the debris in Texas and that the diary was handed over to the Israeli police to help decipher the writing, because the pages were written in Hebrew and some of them were full of holes.
The spokesman for the Johnson Space Center, James Herzfeld, confirmed that all the personal belongings found among the debris were returned to the astronauts' families and for privacy reasons, NASA is not releasing details about this.
The film will be broadcast tonight, Tuesday, January 27 at 20:45 p.m.
  
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We will arrive on time, 20:45, Channel 2 - not the stuff of myth

Rona Ramon in the film "We will arrive on time". The final product is a memory tape

Rogel Eplert None of the three main components in Naftali Glicksberg's film can hold a film alone. The excerpts from Ilan Ramon's diary, whose remains survived the crash, and the quotes from the e-mail he sent to his family members, are partly beautiful and moving, partly banal, but in general they are not interesting enough. The interviews with the family members - about their feelings before and after - cannot carry a documentary either. Whereas the conversations with NASA personnel and aerospace experts yielded a very partial investigation, which does not exhaust the series of failures. "We will arrive in time" purported to be the film about Ilan Ramon, on the one year anniversary of the space shuttle "Columbia" disaster. He tried a little to excite, a little to investigate, a little to draw a portrait of Ramon, a little to remind. The final product is a memory tape.

Too bad. Even if the assumption is accepted that Ramon is an Israeli national hero, and worthy of a memorial film, he is still not a particularly fascinating character. He is portrayed as a charming father, a loving husband, a good person and a talented man. These are not the stuff of myth. His death was tragic, his flight into space symbolized noble human enemies, and also Israeli pride, but his loss is felt mainly by his family members. NASA, on the other hand, is an intriguing and fascinating body, which boldly and ambitiously represents and implements a universal human dream, and the segments that dealt with the investigation of the failure that happened to it created a desire for a film that would examine in depth its flawed conduct. At the end of "We will arrive in time" the disaster continued to be surrounded by a cloud of mystery, full of open questions, and the bottom line regarding this film is frustration.

And yesterday:
Ramon's widow received the Begin Award on his behalf

Rona Ramon, the widow of the astronaut Ilan Ramon, received the Begin Prize for the year 1981 last night on behalf of her husband. The prize was awarded to Ramon, Israel's first space pilot, by the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. The decision was justified by the fact that "his heroic flight was a special act and his conduct as a humble man, a proud Jew and an Israeli air fighter, led to the sanctification of heaven and Israel in the entire world." It was also noted that Ramon participated in the attack on the nuclear reactor in Iraq in XNUMX. Air Force Commander Dan Halutz and Rona Ramon spoke at the ceremony, both in the photo (Tzahar Rotem, Haaretz)

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