Daughter of Ruth and Mutti. She was born on April 25, 1979 in Rehovot. An only child between three sons – Yair, Boaz and Yoav. Michal’s mother lost her first husband – Emanuel Kahalani – in the Yom Kippur War, twenty-five years before Michal’s death and exactly on the same date. Michal’s childhood was marked by the aisles: Her first year was spent in Tiberias, where the family moved. After about a year and a half they returned to live in Ness Ziona. When she was three years old, they moved to Karmiel, where Michal finished kindergarten. In 1985, when she moved to the first grade, her parents decided to move from the city to the village and were absorbed in Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley. Michal studied at the “Gafanim” elementary school in the Jordan Valley. Was a gifted student, and when she finished second grade it was decided to bump her into fourth grade. At the end of 8th grade Michal went to a course for young instructors of the agricultural union and became a tour guide in the Jordan valley. She attended high school in the Jordan High School in the Jordan Valley. Michal was a good student and serious and yet modest, and loves to help others. When she finished her matriculation exams, she was seventeen years old, she was debating whether to register for the academic reserve for medical studies or to volunteer for a year of service. Michal, who was infused with love of the country and loyalty to the state, wanted to contribute to the community and decided to postpone her studies and choose the profession for life for a more mature age. That summer, the Jewish Agency traveled to the Ural Mountains in Russia to teach at a summer camp for Jewish children. As soon as she returned, she settled in the agricultural union movement and went on a year of community service in the communities of Beit Yitzhak and Ptolemy Elazar. In addition, she took part in public activities in the Lev HaSharon Regional Council and established the Youth Training Center of the Union of Agricultural Movement. The subject of the Holocaust was close to Michal’s Lev, and after she visited the concentration and extermination camps, she made a vow not to forget what the Jewish people had been through and to contribute to the Holocaust. At the end of the year she volunteered for a pre-military course for teaching non-commissioned officers and chose to teach soldiers who completed their education to nine years of study, and met with young people she had never met before and tried to do everything in their power to enrich them and prepare them for military service. Which enabled the soldiers approaching the end of their military service to complete their education to a level of twelve years of study, and in this role she spent nights and days teaching mathematics and expression, while completing her duties as an officer. Modestly, shyly and without flaunting her achievements A few days before the graduation ceremony of the officers’ course, while she was on her way home for a Saturday holiday, she got off the bus at the Tomer junction and was stabbed to death by her mother. A Palestinian terrorist at the entrance to the village Michal fell during her duty on 9 October 1998. She was laid to rest in the regional cemetery in the Jordan Valley, leaving parents and three brothers. To the rank of lieutenant colonel. The IDF Chief of Staff at the time, Major General Shaul Mofaz, wrote to Michal’s family in a letter of condolence: “Michal served as a cadet in the officers ‘and commanders’ school at the Central Training Center for Women in the IDF And was described by her commanders as a model soldier with a high personal level, who performed her tasks in the best possible way, with great professionalism and involvement. Michal demonstrated high values and motivation to continue her military service, stood out in the lecturer and the joy of life”Michal’s unit headquarters wrote to her family:” Michal served as a teaching noncom in the IDF’s education unit, an important, significant and sensitive role that requires special skills. Her service was accompanied by a sense of mission. Michal saw the soldiers’ education, direction and education as both a military and a civilian purpose. Michal expressed her strong desire to contribute, out of faith in the IDF and its importance to national security, and saw the military system as a place where she could develop and express her personal skills. , Both professionally and socially, Michal stood out for her leadership and values, along with her high achievements and excellent human relations. ” “I’m not going to summarize, I’m going to tell, about a girl with a captivating and slightly shy smile, a tiny girl with a floral bag on her shoulder and a blouse, with incredible power, around which you will always find a group of boys And girls are at least two heads taller than her and she marches them on the road … Michal, in our movement you passed by in a flash of breath, leaving a seal so strong that everyone who meets you remembers you through your quietness, logic and power. And everything has a solution. ” The coordinator of the youth committee in Beit Yitzhak eulogized Michal: “Michal worked for a year in our village and worked with youth from the fourth to twelfth grades for her year of service in Ichud Haklani. She accompanied all of us – apprentices, counselors and activists alike – in all the activities of the youth, from ceremonies and factories to the smallest and simplest yeshivas. Always with a smile, even when the situation is stressed, even when it does not work out the way you wanted, it was encouraging, requires to get the best out of it. Michal Yiftah, head of the youth council, said to Michal: “Two years ago, Michal Adato took upon herself the responsibility to guide the Youth Council,” she said. , As part of her role in the nuclear group. Today, when you think why she was chosen for this, the answer is quite clear: Only Michal could have done anything that was then, the beginning of something big. Michal’s spirit is embedded in our youth council. She was always up to date with all the details, all the decisions, all the activities and all the meetings. Even when she was in the army, she made sure that everything flowed and continued in exactly the same way she hoped. Today’s council is a reflection of Michal’s vision and work. “Her friends in the commune at the Oded group wrote:” We feel that we have been privileged to live with you, to live with you, to share with you everything. And once as our great mother who explains to us and understands us and sometimes as the little girl everyone loves and indulges and constantly waiting to see. And you were a fairytale, so fair, sometimes we went crazy about it, how human being can be fair, always so considerate and compromising among everyone in your sensible and wise sense. “(This page is part of the Yizkor memorial project, Ministry of Defense)
