Tamar Ariel

Tamar Ariel (Hebrew: תמר אריאל; September 12, 1989 – October 14, 2014) was an Israeli Air Force navigator, Israel's first female Orthodox pilot.

[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.

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