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Engineer Ahmed Hamdi(20 May 1929-14 October 1973) A graduate of the Faculty of Engineering at the Cairo University, in the year 1951 he joined the Egyptian air-force, and had been transferred to the engineering force in 1954. He had travelled to the Soviet Union, where he had passed a training for leaders at the High Military Academy Froonze. At the war of 1956, he was known as "The pure hand", because he detonated thousands of land-bombs, before they exploded. He exploded himself on El Ferdan Railway Bridge, in order to prevent Israeli soldiers from passing upon it. He had installed many watching points upon steel towers, on the Western Shore of the Suez Canal, beneath the trees, in order to watch Israeli troops' movements, while there were no means or sand hills, to permit this watching. He had chosen the location of these towers by himself. He was the leader of the engineering group that was in charge of executing the engineering works for the 2nd army, and while the groups were the most important in Yom Kippur (6 October War). In 1971, he was in charge of preparing a group of troops to install new and complete bridge, that had been dedicated to assure the safe transfer of the 3rd army, to the other side of the canal. He had also helped in the development of the Soviet Production Bridges, in order to adapt them to the Suez Canal situation He had also participated in a big share in finding a solution to the sand barrier, and he had done a lot of experiments on sand barriers, that had been created especially for training, which had helped to find the solution that had been used in then 1973 war (6 October War). He was wounded while the Egyptian army was crossing the canal, where he had saved one of the bridges and had received a bullet and died, because of it. Egypt had honored him, by dedicating to his name, Sainai Star first rank, this prize is the highly military prize in Egypt. His death day was chosen to be Engineer Day, and president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat named a tunnel that links Sainai to the rest of the Egyptian land after him, called Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel.