Farashi, Ahmed Naif

Conversation and Naif. Was born on January 15, 1962 in the Druze village of Abu Sinan, a son of his parents. A year ago, his father was killed in a traffic accident. He attended elementary school in the village and continued his studies in the junior high school and in the regional high school in the village of Yirka. He graduated successfully. Was a good student and a boy who was always saved to help others, with initiative and courage. Ahmed Naif was drafted into the IDF in November 1980. He was proud of his uniform and aspired to serve in senior positions and bear the responsibility involved in them, and after completing his military service he was sent to an officer’s course. He completed his military service in Lebanon in November 1983 and continued to serve in the regular army. He moved up the ranks to the rank of captain and served as an operations officer in the Arava formation. In 1986 he married Guhara and intended to celebrate the anniversary of his marriage when the disaster happened. Ahmed Nayef fell in his post on October 17, 1987, at Nahal Nekarot in the area of ​​Ein Yahav, when he and a commander of the unit set out to mark the danger zone. When they arrived, they discovered a military car with three soldiers, swept away by the current. Ahmed and the brigade commander began to rescue the trapped men, and as he did so Ahmed slipped into the flowing water and was swept away by the flood. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in his village of Abu Snan. Survived by a wife, mother, two sisters and two brothers – Ibtasam, Naja, Abdullah and Fadallah. The commander of the Southern Command, Major General Yitzhak Mordechai, said at his grave that Ahmad Farashi was a dedicated and professional officer who brought honor to his community. The commander of the brigade, who survived the drowning, said, among other things, “You have completed a high way in the IDF.” Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote in a telegram to the bereaved family: “When he jumped into the stormy waters to save the lives of others, he acted with the courage and sacrifice of an exemplary officer and a model citizen.” He was promoted to the rank of Major after his death, and the family and the unit in which he served published a booklet commemorating his memory.