The son of Padilla and Hassan. Was born on 22 September 1979 in the village of Bir al-Maksur in the Western Galilee, the eldest son of his parents. Ayman attended school in his village. He was a busy boy, happy, he liked to laugh and laugh. His family had a Bedouin tent and a pasture, and Iman loved animals and spent a lot of time with them. In his free time he would ride horses, ride a bicycle, or travel far and wide on an ATV. The family photos document his travels and it is clear that Iman loved life and wanted to exhaust it, with an eternal smile on his face. In the photographs from the last Saturday of his life he seems to be spending time with his friends on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, armed with sunglasses, playing, enjoying life, loving and loved. After graduating from high school, he volunteered for the IDF, and most of his relatives in the Bedouin community volunteered for the IDF and always trained to continue. A long process of recruitment ended on the day of recruitment: 5.8.1998. The basic training and advanced training was completed with certificates of excellence. He trained in the Bedouin patrol battalion, spent most of his service in the IDF, spent three years in compulsory service and four years in the career army, served in Gaza as a company commander He was a model soldier, loved his subordinates, and his commanders liked him very much, and he was popular among his friends from the Yishuv, his friends from other Bedouin settlements, and his Jewish friends. In his family, he trained a pillar, and he calmed his parents, who knew he was serving in tax places His father, Hassan Gadir, told of his good-natured son: “He was a great guy, very calm and quiet, not even smoking.” His father added that he had recently completed his home, and hoped to raise a family, “I was afraid and sometimes I did not sleep at night, because I knew where my son was serving … But what could I do? He was an adult and I could not decide for him.” The father accepted the situation. He himself served as a search fugitive for many years and knew what to order. “This is the army’s order, and my son did what he had to do without fear, heroically,” the father said. The last time he returned to his base, Ayman parted from his grandfather, which he usually did not do. On Wednesday, May 12, 2004, Ayman participated in an operational activity along the Philadelphi Route, about 100 meters from the homes of the neighborhood in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The force worked to detonate explosive tunnels, which are suspected of targeting the nearby outpost of Termit on the Israel-Egypt border. At the same time, the Philadelphi route, along which there were a number of IDF positions, was considered the most dangerous battlefield, with shooting, laying of charges and launching missiles, and was focused on tunnels that smuggled weapons from Egypt And armored personnel carriers (APCs), armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers, and armored personnel carriers. In this unit, explosives experts served to expose tunnels. At first he worked instead of the bulldozer, prepared the area and dug three holes in the ground. Then came the armored personnel carrier whose crew was supposed to plant the explosives inside the holes, when an armored D-9 bulldozer and a armored personnel carrier secured him from harm from the direction of Rafah. However, even before the APC personnel began to pour the explosives into the holes in the ground, a powerful explosion occurred, and the APC was apparently hit by an RPG rocket fired from one of the nearby alleys. The armored personnel carrier carried a ton of explosives and the five soldiers who were in it were killed, and Sergeant Ayman Gadir was killedCaptain Aviv Hakani, Sergeant Lior Vishinsky, Sergeant Zaor Smileyev and Sergeant Elad Cohen. Three soldiers were lightly injured in the incident. The next day, large IDF forces were concentrated on the outskirts of Rafah and began searching to bring the dead to burial. When representatives of the city officer arrived at the village of Bir al-Maksur to bring the bitter news to their parents, they met the family in the mourners’ tent when masses of visitors were already streaming into it. Most of the young people in the village serve in the security forces. They updated their relatives about what was happening, and so their friends learned about the tragedy and they came to inform the parents. Word spread quickly throughout the town. Aiman’s grandfather announced that his grandson had been wounded, but the grandfather did not believe the report and said he knew his grandson had been killed because he had parted with him before going to base. Ayman Gadir fell in battle on the Philadelphi route near Rafah. He was twenty-five when he fell. He was followed by parents, four brothers and two sisters. He was buried in the cemetery in his village in the Lower Galilee on 14 May 2004. Five thousand men-family members, friends and brothers-kissed him on his last journey, with pain and deep grief. After his death, he was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. Ayman’s cousin, Major-General Hassan Gadir, who once served as the commander of Ayman’s company in the Gaza patrol, said: “Ayman was a good fighter … He knew the terrain well and this was not his first time under fire.” Two days before Ayman’s death, his brother Hussein turned to his mother and told her that he wanted him to have a son to call him his brother’s brother. The surprised mother scolded her son for not talking like this, but she felt that something bad was going to happen to her beloved son. After he learned about his death, Hussein’s trial was very distressing to his family.
