Bar Shalom, Enosh

Son of Haim and Sarah. He was born in Tel Aviv on March 26, 1936. During his first years in Nes Ziona, during the bloody and tense events in the Yishuv in those days, the family moved to Givatayim where he studied at the school In the name of Katznelson. He stood out for his varied talents and diligence. He completed his high school studies at the New High School in Tel Aviv. Among his classmates, Enosh was an admired figure, enviable when he proved to be a genius in all subjects. Having a distinctly humanistic bent, his friends had predicted the future of a writer or professor of literature. He was also a music lover – he played the piano for nine years. At the same time, he was aware of what was going on in the public and in the country, and reacted to various events in the letters to the newspapers. In the years 1948-1953, he was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement in Givatayim and served as a counselor. He served in the Air Force as an instructor in the army. At the end of the service, in 1956, Enosh had to choose a profession in order to build his future. To the surprise of his friends, he did not choose literature but to practice law and began to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of Enosh’s friends, the writer Ehud son of-Ezer, comments on this choice: “In my reflections, I would try to find in it the other dimension, literary and creative, and it seemed to me that all this was invested in his pleasure and addiction to his profession, Playing with the legal material, understands human beings and their problems with an aesthetic-ironic pleasure, and his mind has always wanted forward, brilliant and surprising. ” In light of his achievements in law studies, he was given permission to study both philosophy and English literature. But he was forced to give up, because for his livelihood he worked full-time in the Ministry of Education and Culture as the head of organization and methods. He completed his law studies cum laude with a Master’s degree in law. In 1960, Adam married Miriam and built his home in Ramat Gan. They had two daughters and a son. In April 1963, he was awarded a scholarship and was accepted as a research student at the University of Melbourne to conduct a doctoral thesis on the question of responsibility and compensation for mental injuries. In his work as a lawyer, he preferred to exhaust the law and justice over improvised success, and therefore appeared before the High Court of Justice and received great attention there. He had rejected the proposal to be appointed as an adjudicator to an older age, but he had hoped to move gradually to counsel-a job that deserved his most extensive skills and knowledge. He took part in the Six-Day War and in the Yom Kippur War, with the rank of captain. As a legal advisor, he was confined to the area until after the war. The opinion he submitted in his capacity in Gaza was highly appreciated. At the end of December 1977 he was called up for active reserve duty in the Gaza Strip, and here, in the middle of his service, he suffered a Lev attack and fell on 2 January 1978. He was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, “The officers and soldiers of the unit all greatly appreciated his amazing professional ability, his understanding and his familiarity with the special legal problems of his family and his family, Of the Gaza Strip region … Your husband was once assigned to determine his opinion on issues that had a far greater significance than the issue of the family Home alone. He knew how to remove from him an obstacle in the force of his logic, with the energy of his energy and kindness…. Dear person”.