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Bar-Ilan, Eldad

Bar-Ilan, Eldad


Son of Ruth and Moshe. He was born in Kibbutz Ga’aton on April 1, 1976. Eldad was the second of the three children of the Bar-Ilan family, brother of Deganit and Valuable, and began his studies at the Ga’aton elementary school and continued with the educational institution “Ashrat” in Kibbutz Evron. His class went to Poland in the twelfth grade. Eldad enlisted in the IDF at the end of March 1995, for the Nahal Brigade track. After completing the months of basic training, Eldad joined the ranks of the Nahal Brigade’s engineering division, where he progressed steadily in the professional and command track, served in the positions of lieutenant colonel and platoon sergeant, and was accepted to an officer’s course and began the completion course at the military engineering school. Eldad was supposed to return to his unit as a team commander after completing the course, during which he was killed in a traffic accident on the Acre-Safed road near Moshav Shzor on Thursday, November 16, 1996. In the accident, a tourist from Kibbutz Ga’aton was also killed. He was on his way home from a team party, a farewell party for the immigrant soldiers to Lebanon, from the Eisen Brigade, some of whom fell in the helicopter disaster a month later. He was twenty years old when he fell. Eldad was laid to rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz, Gaaton. Survived by his parents, sister and brother. Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak wrote in a letter to the family: “Eldad, blessed memory, served as a combat soldier in the engineering division of the Nahal Brigade, and participated in completing the contents of the military engineering school prior to his departure for officers’ course. Disciplined and devoted, who was highly motivated to serve in the army, and was intended to continue in the command line, Eldad was a personal example of those around him, and was popular among his commanders and friends alike. ” The unit commander wrote: “Eldad served as a combat soldier in the engineering division of the Nahal Brigade and excelled in fulfilling his duties. In light of his excellence, Eldad went to an engineering officers course, but was picked before he could realize this dream. As a veteran fighter and a true friend, he always knew how to support and assist his fellow fighters even in difficult times. Eldad’s smile and cold will be sorely missed by his comrades in the company and me, as his commander, personally. The engineering company of the Nahal Brigade is bowing to the loss of one of its best fighters. ” His family commemorated the establishment of a garden in Kibbutz Gaaton and the donation of a Torah library to the Halamish synagogue for the immigrants of Libya in Herzliya.

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