Tamar Ariel

Captain Tamar Ariel (1988/1989–2014) was an Israeli Air Force navigator, Israel's first female Orthodox pilot.[1][2] She died in a Himalayan blizzard in 2014, aged 25.[3]

Tamar Ariel, 2012

Biography

Tamar Ariel was from Masu'ot Yitzhak, a cooperative farming community. Her father was born on the Moshav and her mother immigrated from Puerto Rico. Tamar was the third of six children.[3]

Ariel graduated the Israel Air Force (IAF) flight school in December 2012. During her training she was forced to eject from her Beechcraft T-6 Texan II causing her to rocket skyward, breaking a vertebra in her back. Ariel spent months in an elastic body cast then went on to complete her training. After graduation, she flew the F-16D. During Operation Protective Edge, according to one of her commanders, she flew the most combat missions in her squadron.[3]

Ariel died, aged 25, in a snow storm that hit the high mountain passes on a vacation to the Himalayas in 2014.[3]

gollark: I wonder what calculators actually designed in this century could be like. Probably just somewhat specialized tablets with low-powered CPUs and higher battery life.
gollark: Not that I'm much of a brainologist or something.
gollark: It might just be done on some more general-purpose higher-reasoning bit.
gollark: *Is* there one?
gollark: It would be quite useful, given that brains can do, I don't know, specific tasks like reading, pattern recognition, and that sort of thing pretty well, but are terrible at basic maths.

References
  1. Ettinger, Yair (22 October 2016). "Israeli Navigator Killed in Nepal Was a Role Model to Young Orthodox Women". Retrieved 11 December 2016 – via Haaretz.
  2. "Remembering Tamar Ariel: Israel's First Religious Female Pilot". Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  3. "Killed in the snows of Nepal, IAF's first female religious pilot is laid to rest". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
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