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Louis "Lou" Lenart has been the IDF coordinator for several motion pictures, including the first two Iron Eagle films; the first of which he was also the associate producer. But Lou Lenart is perhaps best known as the Check Yeager of the Israeli Air Force.
- April 24, 1921
- July 20, 2015
Louis Lenart (April 24, 1921 – July 20, 2015) was a Hungarian-born American-Israeli fighter pilot. [1] His exploits during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War were documented in the 2015 documentary film A Wing and a Prayer .
Louis "Lou" Lenart has been the IDF coordinator for several motion pictures, including the first two Iron Eagle films; the first of which he was also the associate producer. But Lou Lenart is perhaps best known as the Check Yeager of the Israeli Air Force.
- Producer, Additional Crew
- April 24, 1921
- Lou Lenart
- July 20, 2015
May 29, 2024 · Lou and three other young men would be the first combat pilots in the Israeli Air Force, flying—ironically—planes designed by Nazi Germany. But first they had to be put together. In a camouflaged hangar at Lydia base, repeatedly harassed by Egyptian bombers, the Messerschmitts were hastily reconstructed.
May 29, 2024 · Lou Lenart, a hero much bigger than any screen. Here was a man to whom Israel and the Jewish people owe so much yet who received so little recognition in return. A soldier whose example of valor and selflessness is followed, however unknowingly, by the myriad Israelis defending our country today.
May 18, 2016 · Lou Lenart. Layos Lenovitz (1921-2015) was born in a rural Hungarian village, the son of farmers. While still a child, his family fled to America to escape persecution. They settled in Pennsylvania, and survived by selling home-made noodles.
Jul 16, 2012 · Touted as the “man who saved Tel Aviv,” the 91-year-old Lenart recalls the fateful events of May 29, 1948 with great emotion and down to the smallest of details.
