Cohen, Eyal

Her beloved son and uncle. Born on 29.1.1966 in the Kerem Hatemanim neighborhood of Tel Aviv, he studied at the Balfour Elementary School and continued to study at the Orim High School in Jaffa in carpentry. He was a sensitive, shy and modest child, who helped and cared for his family, and never took part in rampage or quarrels. As a youth, he always made peace between his friends and made compromises between opponents, even at his own expense. He loved the sea and the sports associated with it, especially surfing and swimming and was a good swimmer. He also worked in the wrestling industry and was active in the Kalisher youth club, which focused, inter alia, on training youth for military service. Eyal also worked in the framework of the Gadna and received a certificate of his contribution to fortifying the rear positions during the war in Lebanon, and Eyal volunteered to enlist in a combat unit and submitted a request for his enlistment, and he was drafted six months earlier than he was at the age of seventeen and a half. Joined the IDF in August 1983 and was assigned to serve in the Golani Brigade, where he completed basic training and after 18 months of service was sent to a squad commanders’ course, which he completed successfully in April 1985. Eyal fell in battle on August 8, 1985 in Wadi Saluk in the security zone In Lebanon, near the village of Saluk, while his unit was stationed in ambush for terrorist squads, and the force encountered them and after the first fire, Eyal came to attack with his friends. Eyal was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind his parents, two brothers and three sisters – Etti, Yoram, Ronit, Gil and Dalit. Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin wrote that Eyal was fond of his comrades in the company and that the smile was an inseparable part of him, while the commander of the unit in which he served wrote that Eyal was the living spirit in the unit, loved and willing to carry out any mission with good spirit and dedication. Eyal’s extraordinary motivation in the context of his surroundings, which did not always encourage service in the combat force and the activity And did shake prejudices. Eyal’s name was immortalized in the Shimshon Tel Aviv soccer team. The family and friends commemorated him in a memorial booklet containing, among other things, many photographs and things written by friends and family