Uri Maimon, born in Haifa, was a member of theThe Israel Scouts (Tzofim)movement and graduated from the Reali High School. He did his military service in the Paratroopers Nachal unit and was a member of the Garin in Kibbutz Hatzerim. After his service, Uri chose the path of education and volunteered as a youth leader in Yeruham. Later, while studying for his bachelor's degree at university, he worked at the Ministry of Education as a cultural activity coordinator in development towns, and was later appointed personal assistant to the Director-General of the Ministry of Education, Elad Peled.

Uri's love for the country showed in countless journeys and hikes. His friends say that hiking trips were always his top priority, and he was always the one who planned and led special, challenging journeys. Uri was always at the front of every hike in his youth, and later served as a natural leader who loved to discover "unknown lands." After the Six-Day War, he frequently hiked in Sinai, a new and unfamiliar area for Israeli hikers at the time.

The Yom Kippur War started while Uri was in the USA, in the middle of his doctoral studies. Uri returned to Israel immediately. From the airport, he called his mother and pretended he was still in the USA so she wouldn't worry. He fell on the eve of Simchat Torah 1973, during a battle against an Egyptian commando unit on the west bank of the Suez Canal.

After the war, in 1974, his friends gathered and established the Green Horizons Clubs to create an educational project that would keep Uri's spirit alive and honor his memory. The clubs started as an independent body, continued under the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), and since 2002 have operated as a registered non-profit organization – the 'KKL-JNF Green Horizons Hiking and Leadership Clubs in memory of Uri Maimon'. Today, the vision born back then continues to be an active center for growing a love for scouting among children, youth, and Israeli society.