Ben-Elka and Moshe, was born on May 19, 1979 in Haifa, a young brother to Ayelet, and a brother to Na’ama, Oded, Ofer-Yitzhak, Avital and Eliav. When he was one and a quarter years old, his family went on a three-year mission to South Africa. Yuval was a clever child – at the age of two and a half he sat and taught himself to read – and yet he was especially happy and hilarious. His mischief was his trademark. Yuval studied at the elementary school in Tel Aviv, went on to the high school yeshiva in Kfar Haruah and joined the hesder yeshiva in Har Bracha, where he was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. “I was always wise in the group, you did not listen to all the lessons, but always before the test you would come to me and say, ‘Come on, Goldfarb, let’s learn.’ We would go to the beit midrash and study. You always took the best grades out of the guys. More than a third of my life we were together, friends in heart and soul. Now that I’m an officer, I’ll try to educate my soldiers about something I’ve learned from you – helping friends. No matter when, nor how tired you were, always with the smile on your face you were right to help. Yuval chose to combine his military service with Torah studies at the yeshiva and was drafted into the IDF in June 1998. As a young man who loved Israel and the Land of Israel was imprinted in him, Yuval To serve in a combat unit, but he was assigned a low profile at the recruiting center and he underwent basic training for a rifleman and was assigned to a non-combat intelligence unit. He was not pleased with this and for a year made tremendous efforts to raise his medical profile. In the end, the profile was uploaded to 97, and he was not happy about it. His father, Moshe, said: “Yuval Gad, our beloved and beloved brother, was in a number of ways a pioneering figure very similar to what we read to Avraham Avinu, who was deeply attached to the Jewish people, the Torah of Israel and the Land of Israel. At first he sat in the Hall of Torah at the Har Bracha Hesder Yeshiva and wrote novellae and commentary on Tractate Brachot, Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed, and Orot to Rabbi Harav Kook, so that within the words we could see Torah power And then fought in every way he could to raise his military profile Low highest Rofil to be included in the IDF’s combat system. After all, after going through basic army training and a quartermaster course, he could enjoy his service with pleasure, but Yuval was not restless, but went to medical committees many times to correct the profile. Finally, he managed to do so. “Even though he was a particularly skinny guy, He was a soldier and an outstanding commander, one of the first in his class to take part in a commanding course, and at the end of his service he joined the spear squad in the sabotage unit of the Granit Battalion, during which he fought in Lebanon And during the period of the intifada, Yuval was very fond of expressing his love for Israel through regular trips Statements. Such was the trip where I went on Cheshvan Tss”a (11/06/2000) Naama sister, a year younger, cliffs Tse’elim. During the trip he slipped down and was killed. Staff Sergeant Yuval Bitan was buried in the military section of Har Hamenuhot in Jerusalem and is twenty-one years old. Survived by his parents and six brothers and sisters. In the lines of the personal inscription on his graveWas enacted: “He ascended into heaven through the clods of the holy land, with the love of Torah and the people of Israel.” Yuval’s death found his father, Rabbi Moshe Bitan, in mourning for Rabbi Yitzhak Levy, the leader of the National Religious Party, who lost his daughter Ayelet Hashahar in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Next to him in his last moments of life, wrote to him: “I wanted so much to be more friends than brothers, that we learn to know each other as friends know. In the end I got to know you better than the stories of friends, commanders, soldiers, but not stories I heard from you. The sight of you there, lying helpless, and there is no one to come to you to help you. Your screams that hurt you and I can not help come back to me again and again … You’d probably want us to get back to normal life, but it’s so hard. What will happen to us at the end? … I believe you wanted to have a girlfriend, you wanted to get out of the army and move into your own apartment, be in charge of yourself, travel the world – Australia, New Zealand, learn, enjoy and live. And now you are now alone there instead of your own, looking at everything from above and you have no worries like others. And life? How is it there? “” The pain is in the small things: to come arm in arm from the synagogue, to talk to you about the essence of life until the wee hours of the night or to solve logic puzzles with you. “Lieutenant Yuval Chen, commander of the unit, wrote about him:” Yuval taught us that a person’s stature and strength are not measured in height or physical size, and he helped and helped his friends on the journeys, Oded Bergai Crisis and pushed forward those who surrounded it. ” “I did not know how to eulogize you on the 30th day of your death, but I decided to tell everyone one story, one of many, that can make it clear to those who did not know you how big you were for us. (Senior sergeants) for three months. You did not want to attend the course for the simple reason that you did not want to disengage from the platoon and the platoon for such a period of time. You deliberately thwarted yourself in an elegant manner and returned to the department just before running a vest. We, who were getting ready for the long break, were very happy for you and we felt it was fun to be with you again. And now, standing near your grave, we feel that the fun has gone away, and laughter is not the laughter that was. We only have memories left. “After his death, his family began collecting all the written material that Yuval left behind, in order to publish a book to commemorate it and commemorate it, which would be called the” Mevadnei Yovel, “so that others would also be able to learn and teach its innovations, His ideas and his thoughts, which were as deep and lucid as he had been in his life. “
