Nadav, son of Rivka and Israel, was born on July 18, 1953, in Kibbutz Dorot, And studied at the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional School. Nadav’s life and education were intertwined with family life, society and the kibbutz fields. Here, in this atmosphere and environment, he absorbed the love of the homeland and the people. His interests were very diverse, and in every subject, he dealt with, he invested his best energies, steadily and with an attitude of responsibility and seriousness. School studies were not compulsory for him either. He liked to study, especially the real professions, and graduated with high grades. Nadav was also an outstanding athlete in swimming, playing table tennis, gymnastics, tennis, and especially basketball. He participated in the national basketball team and even guided other basketball teams. When he was ten years old he began to play piano and the music was a whole world for him. For hours he would sit and practice at the piano, listen to classical music records, and dismiss the pop songs he loved about his friends. Nadav was interested not only in music. He liked to read literature, though he was not a bookworm, liked to walk in the fields and enjoy the beauty of the landscape and even liked the work. His father said: “Nadav was honest and straight, always looking for reasons and logic in everything, he considered the value of man above all, and he pursued justice, and he was unable to refuse any request. “It is difficult to express in words how we loved Nadav, he was different from all of us, distant, special, and also kept his uniqueness, perhaps not out of desire, but because he found it hard to find partners who would be interested in all the subjects that filled his world. Chatting, sitting on the steps of the youthful neighborhood, playing the piano, or solving mathematical problems, the devotion he devoted to every subject, and the successes that were its fruits, brought us to a kind of admiration and distant love. “Nadav was drafted into the IDF in early November 1971 and volunteered for the parachuted Nahal Brigade. “Nadav was always ready to help everyone,” said his friend in the service, David: “I loved to go out with him because he was an excellent and cautious soldier in the reconnaissance patrol. What he demanded of them, therefore they greatly admired him. The Yom Kippur War found Nadav and his friends at the outpost on the edge of the Suez Canal – the outpost of Eli – when the Egyptian commando boats were seen from far, the men of the outpost entered a bitter battle with the enemy, in which a large part of their strength was lost. On the second day of the war, Nadav fell in battle and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery of Kibbutz Dorot, leaving behind a father, mother and three brothers, he was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. : “Nadav was devoted to the idea of pioneering fulfillment. He was a soldier beloved and loved by his friends and commanders. “In his memory, the family published a booklet containing pieces of letters written by him, as well as a chapter in a booklet published by Kibbutz Dorot in memory of its victims.
