Friedman, Gal

Son of Ora and David. He was born on June 28, 1975 in Haifa. A brother to Shmuel and Liat. Gal was the eldest son and grandson, and lived all his life in Haifa. A very special child, who at the age of three played a calculator and learned the whole multiplication table, liked to build in Lego, and enjoyed thinking games. Gal attended the WIZO home at Rambam Hospital, a home to which the children of doctors and nurses were registered. Of course, when he reached first grade he knew how to connect, subtract and multiply. When he was four, his brother Samuel was born, and when he was twelve, his sister Liat was born. Gal was a curious child with a shy smile, an object of pride for the whole family. A child of a home, warmth and joy, who wants to be surrounded by a lot of love. As a child he laughed and made the uncles and aunts laugh, and the cousins ​​were a bit pestering. As a boy he used to invite them to eat together, play backgammon, shared everything with the press, and conducted intimate conversations with a mature and deep vision. He attended the “Ein Hayam” elementary school at Sha’ar HaAliya. Gal was ambitious, a sign of purpose and soon reached her. He wanted to be first in everything, and he bought the latest brands and the latest gadgets. At the age of twelve, when a few had a home computer, his parents bought him a computer at his request. The first computers were difficult to operate and required reading textbooks on the software. In less than a year, Gal had learned what was written in the books, understood everything that could be discovered on the computer and was bored with it. For his next birthday he got a new and more advanced computer. In the wax museum, Gal was photographed with Sylvester Stallone, his favorite actor, who watched all his films and collected articles published in the newspapers. He liked to challenge himself: he took part in a tennis club, played basketball and soccer, studied arrography and solved the Hungarian dice without any problems. No problems since he had found a magic and tricks shop in London and purchased various accessories there, read books on the subject He also liked to play bowling with a regular group of friends, and devoted his time to Thursday evenings, and he also watched Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball games, and he also loved music, played drums and established a band. “When he moved to the Carmel and the noise disturbed the neighbors, his friends bought him an electric system so that he would continue to practice drumming, he had a sophisticated audio system and many CDs, and he never agreed to the CDs. Burned, and always bought original. He listened to Phil Collins, “Genesis” and “Gregorian” alongside classical music. He used to put the music up in his room and play with it. Whenever someone touched his personal belongings in the room, in his elaborate system and CDs, Gal immediately noticed and was angry. Sometimes his sister Liat drummed drums in his room or touched other interesting things, and he recognized it and scolded her. His other hobby was horror films, including the series “The X-Files”. The last book he did not finish was The Book, one of Stephen King’s greatest horror novels. Gal liked to play with his grandfather backgammon and tried to win him, but he never succeeded. He also played backgammon online, with people from all over the world. With his good friend Shmuel Kaufman, he reached first place in a backgammon tournament. “Gal was very aggressive, and we always played to win.” At 4 AM I went to sleep and thought that Gal would also go to sleep. After five hours, when I awoke, I saw that he was still playing … until he won. He always aspired to be the number one in everything. “With Tal Sudari, Gal drove to consult and advise, exchange experiences, share secrets, spend time at sea and travel with other friends in every corner of the country. “Most importantly,” Tal says, “we laughed a lot … We studied together almost all the matriculation exams, and it was so much fun learning together, that we did not feel the time pass. Gal was not a dull moment, he had to be interesting all the time – whether it was endless jokes or a brilliant idea of ​​pranks… The master of arguments, it would not matter to him which side he took In the debate. He always had convincing arguments in both directions, and in the end he always came out the one who was right. “Tal also said:” He was the first of all, his first grandson, the first son. He studied in the first science class in Israel, the first one to have a driver’s license, Worry and think about everyone in times of trouble. “Gal loved attention and always wanted to be surrounded by people, and he did not give up any celebration, whether it was his birthday, graduation or graduation, he was funny, he always made faces for the camera and the frightening pranks When he went to London with his parents he suddenly disappeared, and his mother looked for him everywhere. She returned to the hotel, but it turned out that Gal had followed her all the way, but his mother had been very upset about his worries, but less so on his mother’s mobile phone. When he found out that she was offended, that he was able to “work on her,” Gal laughed as part of his prank at home, taking Liat from her plate what she loved the most when she did not notice it. Liat cried and he … laughed of course. But not only the family members were Gal’s “victims.” At the officers’ meetings it was determined that the disturbance was buying cookies for the next meeting. Gal used to make the officers laugh deliberately so that his commander would fine them with cookies, and their explanations did not help to make them laugh. Gal’s attraction to the challenges led him to ride a motorcycle. He also wanted to travel abroad to learn how to drive Formula 1 racing cars, and when he took out a license, his mother and father objected to the motorcycle. He chose a black BMW and went to school, but Gal also learned to ride a motorcycle and spent a year sharing it with his brother, who spent a lot of time together, played basketball together and Shmuel joined the bowling games. First as “falafel”, Gal as a captain or Shmuel as the first sergeant, and Gal slipped several times with the motorcycle and Shmuel corrected him a few months before he was killed. When Gal joined the army on December 2, 1993, he received a summons for an aviation course and passed the first two stages of sorting “In the third stage, which included an interview with the psychologist, he found out that he belonged to a group that was originally scheduled to not undergo this stage, and Gal was very upset about this and wrote a letter to the chief of staff. As a result of this experience, he developed a desire to take a civil aviation course. In the end, he enlisted in the Nahal Brigade for a course for squad commanders and served as an officer in the Hashomer guard farm.His soldiers in love with his friends, and told his mother about the challenge he has as a commander for recruits and the great satisfaction in the job. One night Gal fell into a pit at Hashomer Farm, and the fall wounded his leg. As a result, his profile fell and he was forced to give up the officers’ combat course, but did not give up the officer’s course and reached the corps of adjutant. He began his regular service on December 2, 1996. When he finished his army service, Gal was placed in command in Safed. In his second position he was posted to Tirat Hacarmel, where he served as a liaison officer in Etgar. Gal liked the job very much, enjoyed it and therefore extended his service time after time. Brigadier General Dan Biton, commander of the unit, wrote to the Friedman family: “Gal began his military service in the Etgar formation in January 1998 and served for two and four months as an officer in the division headquarters. Be full of energy and joy and be a personal example to others. ” Col. Yaron Be’eri wrote in his memory: “I met Gal when he, with his embarrassed smile, presented himself as a liaison officer at Etgar in the liaison base near Haifa, and asked him to continue his military service. The difficulty of the job (which many have failed before) is the need to stand up to many senior commanders, the need to demand from soldiers that they have not done many years of work, and in short to ‘make order’ in a unit composed of many subdivisions … Order and organization I was afraid, I did not know Gal and I did not have a simple task But Gal’s presence gave me confidence and Gal was assigned to the position … Gal entered the position perfectly, and thanks to his organizational and management ability, which was performed with blessings but with determination, he quickly achieved considerable achievements, which included order and organization in the units of the division, alongside Gal was able to harness them for joint action … and brought the organizational units to achievements in the field of organization and attendance for employment, all of which Gal performed while he was very sensitive to people … placed a positive and pleasant atmosphere on them. Gal soon became a leading officer who trained liaison officers in the division … “Col. Yaron Be’eri completed his position and began a new position as a unit officer of Division 91. He found that the link area is neglected and requires an officer to meet the great challenge. He spoke to Gal, who immediately stepped on the mission and ended his commitment to a challenge. Thus, for a while he held two positions simultaneously: the role in the castle and overlap to the new role in Acre. In each of the offices the amount of work was enormous and Gal managed to take over and manage both at the same time successfully, thanks to his special abilities. He was honest, caring and always thought about the other before he thought of himself. There was innocence and shyness alongside great sensitivity and determination. He was a very diligent officer and received a short cut (a minimum period of time) to the rank of captain. ” After his death, his officers, Odelia, Michal, Oded, Noa, Lilach and Dana wrote: “… if the commander’s job is to teach his subordinates how to carry out their work and command this work, , A caring, caring and warm man in the full sense of the word, and his sense of humor and constant smile added a lot of joy and life to the office. ” One of his soldiers said he had become religious and had received respect from Magal. Gal gave him time every morning to put on tefillin. The day before he was killed, Gal was promoted to the rank of captain on the occasion of Israel’s 50th Independence DaySarel, and the family decided to hold a meal for him. His parents were afraid of riding on the motorcycle but the family car was stolen this weekend and Gal was forced to ride his motorcycle for rehearsals for the Memorial Day ceremony at the base in Rosh Pina. Gal was one of the officers who were supposed to participate in the honor guard at the Memorial Day ceremony. Gal’s grandfather was killed in the War of Independence and Gal made a pilgrimage to his grave every memorial day. This was also what he meant to do this time, after the base ceremony. But when he reached the Ramah intersection, a car hit him, whose driver did not give a wave of right of way. Captain Gal Fridman was killed on the spot, when the vehicle was hit. Gal was killed in the course of his duties on May 5, 2000, at the age of twenty-five, when he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, and was survived by his parents, brother and sister, I loved you very much, I loved your smile, I loved your argument. I loved the explanation you gave me for every question and question. “After his death, the family received from the head of the manpower division, Major General Yehuda (Yudka) Segev, a certificate of appreciation and honor in Gal’s memory:” Gal saw his service as a mission and carried it with devotion and love. Dedicated and dedicated, always devoted himself to increasing the strength of the IDF and cultivating its spirit, while the good of the state is in front of its eyes. After Gal’s death, his friends told him how he had helped them. One of them refused to travel abroad because he had to take care of his sick father, Gal offered to replace him, and for ten days he treated the sick father daily, after working in the army, taking care of food, medicine, helping him at home and even taking him out to a restaurant. Etgar wrote: “Gal was a professional, practical commander, who knew the rules of the army and acted in a fair and fair manner.” After his death, his parents organized a bowling tournament in his memory … Because your mission was cut short by Ibba, “Liat explained, serving as liaison officer for the same battalions, on the same bases, with some of the soldiers who knew her brother and appreciated him.