Adele, Gil (Henrik-Ryszard)

Son of Fanny and Leopold. He was born on August 17, 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. At the age of three, he immigrated to Israel with his mother after his divorce from his father. After remarrying, the teacher and composer Yitzhak Adele in Tel Aviv, Adele adopted his son and then changed his first name. He studied in Tel Aviv, first in elementary school and then moved to the Gymnasia Herzliya and completed his studies there. Even at an early age, he was particularly interested in science, especially mathematics and physics, but he also found great interest in other fields: philosophy, psychology and social sciences. At the age of 12, he joined the Scout movement and worked for many years as an apprentice and later as a counselor. In this movement his national Jewish consciousness increased. And as he wrote in his life history, “An important question arose in me when I was in the Scouts – the national question, from the very first moment that the unfortunate condition of our people was revealed to me, I could not refrain from thinking about it.” As a friend’s testimony, he was “handsome, tall and upright, with his curls flying everywhere”. In addition to studying and reading, he was involved in sports and hiking in various parts of the country. After completing his studies at the Gymnasium, he went to agricultural training and worked with a group of his friends in kibbutzim Sarid, Dorot, Ayelet Hashahar and Ramat Hakovesh. He joined the Palmach and served in the Scout Service, based in Maoz Haim, where he contracted typhoid fever and was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Tel Aviv, where he died on February 25, 1944, and was laid to rest in the Nahalat cemetery Isaac. Laid master. In his memory trees were planted in the forest of the Jewish National Fund near Dorot, and a scholarship was established for subjects of mathematics and physics for the students of the Herzliya high school. The family also published a booklet in his memory and was immortalized in the library that was named after him at Kibbutz Be’eri, where a group of his friends sat down. His adoptive father wrote in memory of Gil Cantat, but to Elisha Rudin’s words “Lavan”, a passage from which was heard at a concert held in his memory at the Beit Midrash for Teachers and Teachers in Tel Aviv. One of his teachers wrote about him after his death: “The nobility and heroism, honesty and humility, kindness and firmness of an independent personality all merged into his brave and Yaffa body with his Yaffa features and became an uncommon harmony.”