Marc Nathan Levy, the son of Salidor-Andre and Helena, was born in Paris in France on 18th September 1921.He had been studying medicine and during the German occupation in World War II, he participated in the Jewish Underground in France. He became an officer in the ranks of the Free French Army, and took part in the liberation of Paris.
He arrived in Israel in May 1948 and volunteered for the IDF. As well as serving as a soldier, he also wrote reports from the front for the French Zionist newspaper Renaissance, and his gifted and brilliant commentaries helped to raise the morale of French Jews.
He was killed on the road to Tel Aviv on 25th October 1948 when his jeep blew up on a mine.
He was buried at Beit Eshel, and on 31st August 1949 he was re-interred at the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.
After his death, when the first ceremony was held in France for Israeli pilots who had received their wings, the ceremony was named after him in his honor.
Source: Translated from the Yizkor website by Joe Woolf