Ben Masuda and Shlomo. Eli was born in Morocco on June 27, 1962. Immigrated to Israel at the age of two with his family, who settled in Upper Nazareth. He spent all his childhood and high school in Nazareth Illit, studied at the Moshe Sharett Comprehensive School and graduated in the 1980’s. Eli served in the Armored Corps until 1983. Most of his service was in Lebanon. During the Peace for Galilee War he served as a tank soldier. Eli loved football. During his spare time he listened to Shlomo Artzi’s songs and smoked a pipe. He loved working and nurturing the garden in his home. In 1983 Eli joined the Israel Police, the Northern Region, and was stationed at the Afula station. From there he left in 1984 for a basic police course at the police academy in Shfaram. In 1985 he moved to the Tel Aviv district of Ramat Hasharon where he served as a policeman in the reconnaissance unit. The move was of his own accord, because he expected that his promotion in the army and his aspiration to become a commander would be realized more quickly in the central region. In March 1988, Eli went to a symbol course, which he completed with very good grades and high esteem and was chosen for guidance, a choice that matched his expectations and his aspiration to instill his credo about the “good cop,” the policeman who invests his time, And to provide service to citizens in the most honest and fair manner. In November 1988, Eli underwent training and was appointed as a guide in a police course. In this framework, he instructed a large number of police officers. This was a fertile period for him, in which he felt he had succeeded in instilling great values in the new police. A period in which he enjoyed the process at the beginning of which he received new policemen who were “material in the hands of the creator.” At the end, he was satisfied with the product – policemen with professional knowledge, full of motivation and a desire to return to the field. Many police officers, who instructed them, remember and can not forget Eli, the tough guide who did not give up and did not make assumptions. He was strict about iron discipline but at the same time knew how to be a friend, listen to problems, help and give the feeling that there was always someone to trust. During the period when he was a counselor, he and many of his policemen went to reinforcements in Jerusalem, especially during the first intifada. In October 1990, when he was reinforced in Jerusalem, he saved the life of a policeman who was stabbed by an Arab boy, who assaulted the boy, disarmed him and arrested him – for this act he received many letters of appreciation. In 1988 Eli met Dina, who took part in an officers’ course at the police academy in Shfaram. In 1989 they married and moved to the center of the country. The service at the police academy required Eli to be away from home most of the week. Eli’s greatest ambition was to become an officer, and in 1991 he took a step in this direction when he successfully passed the officers ‘examinations, which determined that he met the criteria for leaving the officers’ course. In December 1991 he joined an officers ‘course that lasted seven months and ended in July 1992, during which he was highly respected. His commanders’ opinions were very positive. He was acceptable to his friends and commanders and was elected to the department committee. On the level of command and control, Eli’s level was very good. One of his outstanding characteristics, which characterized him in the course and later during his service, was his ability to employ his subordinates by virtue of his personality and authority. His personality was overwhelming and his charm, honesty, and goodness could not be overcome. At the end of the officer’s course, Eli was again recommended for training, but at this stage, although he loved the police school very much, the people who worked with him and the policemen he guided, he chose to return to field work, some of which were personal. In July 1992 Eli was appointed commander of the patrol unit of the Herzliya Police, a position he held for two years, a relatively short period in which he succeeded in making his mark on the station and onOfficers and police officers. He met the station commander when he was a police instructor. This acquaintance greatly assisted their joint work. The station commander highly valued Eli and his work and believed that Eli was going to go far. When Eli asked to leave the station for the position of commander of the Qalqiliya station, where he saw another significant step in his promotion of the force, the station commander refused to approve his transfer, and only after much reluctance from Eli gave up and approved his transfer. In the closing interview, the station commander expressed his great appreciation for Eli in the trial: “The period of our joint work gave me great satisfaction.” In March 1995 Eli was appointed commander of the Qalqiliya station. During the three months he commanded the station, he received many assessments from his commanders, from mayors and from local councils and from many residents of the area. Despite the service in the heart of a Palestinian city was not deterred and feared, and worked to eradicate the crime in it. Everyone feared that Eli would be forced to deal with a terrorist incident that would endanger his life and that Eli was killed in a criminal incident of the kind he had dealt with in the past with great success on June 22, 1995. ) Eli’s family reported on the incident: “Why did this happen? No one knows and we may never know. As I know the police and Eli certainly, there were others who would avoid endangering themselves in order to save a person who threatens to end his life and thereby endanger others. But not to me-he acted with confidence that he would be able to control everything, and it never occurred to him to give up or despair of difficulty or trouble. He did not think for a moment about himself but only about saving the lives of others. When he was evacuated from the area of the incident, he asked to be taken care of first of all by his policemen, even though his condition was much worse. “Eli was thirty-three years old in his death, and was buried in the cemetery in Nazareth Illit, leaving his wife, mother, brothers and sisters.
