Son of Varda and Nissan, a brother to Elad and Nir. Gal was born on the 26th of Kislev 5736 (26.11.1975) in Arad. When Gal was five years old, the family moved to Rishon Letzion and Gal announced that when he grew up he would return to live in Arad. Gal was a very intelligent and well-articulated child, very active socially, stood out for leadership and united his group. Gal was a model and a source of pride for the family, a loving brother and a citizen with an awareness and loyalty to the state and the environment. Gal had varied hobbies. At the beginning of his studies in elementary school, he participated in a chess club which he returned to after years, leaving behind his chess pieces in his room. Gal studied at Ein Hakore Elementary School where he established friendships with many of his friends and friends who accompanied him along the way even when he separated from them as he turned to continue his studies in middle school. From the framework of his studies at Gal Elementary School, he left impressive works, such as “Shorashim” about the family, work on the city of Netanya and extensive work on the IAF’s activities in the Six Day War. Gal was one of the first active members of the Rishon Letzion Flying Club and in addition to building and flying models, he took part in every task of nurturing the club. One of Gal’s great pleasures was to operate the lawnmower at the airport for airliners. Gal was the first to leap in search of a model that was lost to his operator (often this model was his) and published useful tips published in the club’s newsletter. Gal liked basketball and practiced in Maccabi Rishon Lezion basketball team. Gal was full of joie de vivre, giving warmth and love to everyone around him. In junior high school, Gal was interested in law and justice and took part in enrichment courses on the subject, but naturally he chose to attend high school where the law department opened. The “Makif” high school was another fascinating encounter with boys and girls his age and some of them had first loves. Toward the end of his high school studies, Gal began to engage in another hobby – photography. His hobby became one of his great loves. Gal worked in his spare time and purchased a state-of-the-art camera and photographic equipment that accompanied him until his death. Gal immortalized events from the life of high school, Gal’s investment in photography has brought great achievements. Those who saw the picture of the collage “The Tree of Gal” from the hats of fate, the picture of the “Gal Team” or the photo album of Nir his younger brother, saw the love invested in the hobby and the photographed object. Gal completed his high school studies in the law department and went on to military service with the intention of studying law at the university after his release. Gal planned to embark on a trip to Australia upon his discharge from the army and in preparation he took a diving course and acquired sophisticated equipment, although he managed to enjoy it only a little before he fell. In order to be ready for combat service, Gal practiced at the gym and then participated in a combat fitness course he completed as a regular apprentice. Gal enlisted in the IDF on March 31, 1994. In the 101st battalion, Gal completed basic training and advanced training at the end of which he was wounded and transferred to the field corps headquarters, where he underwent a course in intelligence and patrols and was assigned to the Infantry and Infantry Corps As a reconnaissance officer, due to his suitable figures for the officer and his desire to contribute more, Gal went to an officers’ course in the track of the IAFShlomo Hilit of Modi’in and tour. Gal returned to the Infantry and Infantry Corps Infantry and Infantry Corps as an officer in the reconnaissance section, where he was awarded certificates of distinction and recognition while acquiring more friends with whom he had forged deep ties of friendship. Upon completion of his regular service and towards the end of the career year, Gal sought to move from his training to an operational position and chose to command the observation post at the “Zipporen” post on the Lebanese border. Gal devoted all his energies to learning the sector, the means and mainly invested in his staff. Gal initiated actions to improve and streamline the unit’s operations, and in the last activity from which he did not return, his observation post was positioned at the Talousa outpost inside Lebanon in order to provide intelligence on a day of battle. For this reason, Gal was invited from a diving vacation where he managed to dive at night, an experience that he described as “a pity for time!” Gal took off his vacation, flew to the north, and was stationed at the observation post at an outpost that was then manned by SLA soldiers On Monday, 29.9.1997, at 10:48, By Hizbullah terrorists. The injury was direct, Gal was critically wounded and was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital in Safed. Gal died of his wounds in the helicopter. Two months before he was twenty-two, Gal was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion. After his fall he was promoted to captain. Survived by his parents and two brothers. In his letter of consolation to the family, Chief of Staff Amnon Shahak wrote: “Gal served as commander of an observation post in the Intelligence Corps’ observation unit and was described by his commanders as a devoted officer who invested heavily in fulfilling the tasks he was assigned. “Gal was killed while carrying out a mission he was assigned as an observer in an attempt to locate terrorists when he hit a missile at the observation post where he was and left us orphaned. We got to know the wave of the commander and the “father”. As a commander, always aspired to achieve the best. He did not rest until he had achieved everything he wanted, in order to achieve all his wishes. As a “father,” he took care of his soldiers and guarded them with all his might. “On Gal’s gravestone, a personal inscription commemorating him was inscribed, his blue-eyed eyes and his last action for the homeland:” All your eyes are a wave, like the sky of your eyes, ours. “
