Uri Maimon, born in Haifa was a participant in the Scouts Youth Movement and a graduate of the Hebrew Reali School in his hometown. Uri served in the Nahal Paratroopers and was a member of the garin at Kibbutz Hatzerim. Upon completing his service, Uri chose to follow the path of education and volunteered as a youth leader in Yerucham Later, while studying towards his B.A. At university, he worked for the Ministry of Education as coordinator of cultural activity in development towns and later served as personal assistant to the Ministry of Education's Yigal Alon.

Uri’s love for Israel was expressed in countless treks and hikes. His friends recall that hiking was always his highest priority and he was the one who constantly initiated unique and challenging treks. He would be at the head of the group on every hike when he was younger and later a natural leader who loved discovering “unknown lands”. After The Six-Day War, he often hiked in the Sinai Desert which was then a new and unknown area for Israeli hikers.

At the outbreak of The Yom Kippur war, Uri was in the US at the peak of doctoral studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He immediately returned to Israel, calling his mother from the airport pretending to still be in the United States to spare her any worry. He fell after Simchat Torah 1973 while fighting an Egyptian commando unit on the West Bank of the Suez Canal.

After the war, in 1974, his friends got together and established the Chugey Sayarut, with the aim of creating an educational project that would preserve Uri’s spirit and be dedicated to his memory. The organization began as an independent body and continued their work under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and since 2002 have operated as a registered nonprofit organization – The Chugey Sayarut Non-Profit Organization named after the late Uri Maimon. Until today the vision born then continues as an active center for nurturing love of the Sayarot amongst children and in particular, teenagers and within Israeli society in general.