Son of Tufakha and Fuad, was born on October 29, 1964, in the village of Yirka. Imad, one of the ten children of the Abu Rish family, a member of the Druze community. He began his studies at the elementary school in the village, where he moved to the Druze high school Achva in Yarka, first in junior high school, and completed his high school studies in the theoretical track. During the years of his studies and vacations from the school, he participated in many activities in the village community center, such as nature, shalach and gadna.In addition, he played football, his favorite hobby, during which he used to work to finance his textbooks And to help the family and brothers, he was a good and talented student who loved to learn and to continue his studies during his career in the IDF. He participated in courses on behalf of the Center for Education and Culture at the Julis Community Center, including an interpersonal and organizational communication course, an English course and a course on Israeli society, and in October 1998 he began studying for a first degree in industry and management at the University of Latvia. . He was assigned to a general service, and after taking a driving course, he was assigned to the battalion commander’s personal command, and some time later, when the commander of the battalion was appointed commander of the Liaison Unit for Lebanon, Imad naturally continued to serve As his personal driver, and then served as the moderator of all the changing commanders of the KKL. He was a driver and a personal security guard, an interpreter and a guide who knew every place and path, every tree, every village and man in the Lebanese sector. During his compulsory service he acquired a driver’s license on a truck, ambulance and bus, and became an interpreter. After completing his compulsory army service in October 1986, he moved directly to the IDF career service, where he continued until the end of October 1991. Throughout this period, Imad served as translator and personal driver of the LIC commander. Imad was released and was a one-year citizen, during which he worked as a contractor for the construction of plaster walls. At the end of the year, he returned to the army as a driver, security guard and personal translator of the LIC commander. During the course of his service he served as the commander of five of the commanders of the unit, and was a model soldier, modest, pleasant, smiling, cordial, dedicated, loyal, loved and highly respected by the unit’s senior commanders, He tried to move to another position, but he did not find any interest in his new position and returned to the LIKI, where he married Hana, who had three sons, Samer, Fuad and Amir, in August 1987. He was the son of a family of six who served in the system He built his home in the village of Yirka, and was a model family member who continued to look after his parents and his brothers even after his marriage. Who spent most of his time in Lebanon and saw them only on weekends, and when he came to the village, he always made sure to go through his parents’ house first and demand their well-being, This week, his character was well known and beloved in the village, and in social events and joyous events he was always a focus of joy and activity, and he was absent from the house for a long time because of the situation in Lebanon. His promise. On February 28, 1999, Imad fell in combat operations in Lebanon. This occurred when the unit returned from routine activity in the village of Hatzvia, in the security zone in southern Lebanon. Imad drove the vehicle of his beloved commander, Brigadier General Erez Gerstein, when a powerful bomb was detonated against the occupants of the car and Brig. Gen. Erez Gerstein, commander of the Lt. Col. Amar al-Qabatz, The connection isYishai, commander of the YKL and Ilan Roeh, wrote Kol Israel in the north, was thirty-five years old when he was laid to rest in the cemetery in the village of Yarka East, leaving a wife, daughter, three sons, Ziad, Zaid, Zaher, Afif, Naheda, Ayub, Dahud, and Na’am. His brother, Afif, writes about him: “I always had doubts about many eulogies for all the fallen, who only told good things about their deeds … I thought that after a dead man flattered him, when Imad fell, my brother, I could not speak, The most ideal, who can support a family and help others in the army or village, and especially knew how to bring joy and smile to many people, I did not believe he would die, but I was wrong. To this very moment, we do not believe that Imad is separate from us, and the joy has been cut off by many, many people. His son Amir, who was born on February 29, 1996, was waiting for his father on the same day that he had fallen on February 28, 1999 in order to receive the hug and birthday gift. His older daughter, Sahar, who received a lot of indulgence and privilege from her father, is still crying and decorating her room with her father’s pictures. Both Samer and Fuad are hard to digest, but slowly they realize the magnitude of the pain and feel the great lack of his absence. His brave brave wife, who took a major and important part as a housewife who raised wonderful and diligent children in her studies, continues to hope that her husband will return again. She would make do with his smile and his brief closeness. We knew about his life during his military service only after he fell. Many people, who knew him personally, came to console him and told him of his heroic deeds, his easy nature, his willingness to help always, and his great respect. “I am happy with the world of many heroes who fell and did not see the end of the road, through the happiness that comes to them more than anyone else.” Among the many supporters of Imad are IDF commanders and reserve commanders, public figures, journalists, Knesset members, ministers and even the President of the State, and many of the inhabitants of the security zone in southern Lebanon came to the family’s home for a condolence visit, “In his letter to the family, the commander of the unit expresses the spirit of the many eulogizers:” For most of his beautiful years, Imad served in Lebanon, exposed to dangers. He often found himself in dangerous situations and was rescued from them. This was not the case at the last event. I knew Imad well. Abu Rish we called him all, Abu Rish, who knows every route, path and stone. Abu Rish, who had no limit to his devotion, a soldier who was a key figure in the unit, who was a model for young men, who took care of every soldier as a good father and around his eternal smile. We spent two years together, good and bad, in the sun and the cold, happily and sadly. I put my trust in him and I was never disappointed. Imad was praised on many occasions, and on the last Independence Day, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the state, I chose Imad, your loved one, against an outstanding officer before the Chief of the General Staff. Imad was killed as a proud fighter next to a commander he admired and loved, and two of his comrades in arms, while on an operational mission. That’s how he would like to be remembered. That’s how we’ll keep it. “
