Ben Leah and Mordecai and Tommy. He was born on 12 July 1976 at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava. Gilad grew up in Herzliya. He studied at the “Weizman” elementary school, the “Shmuel HaNagid” junior high school, and the “Ort Herzliya” high school. Gilad had a special sense of humor and a constant, irresistible smile that was irresistible. He loved life and was loved by his friends. After his death, he was told that he was a quiet guy whose constant and special personality radiated on everyone. Gossip and mess were not his field. Everyone said he was a “real man”. Gilad loved the sea from his childhood. At a young age he had a professional sailing course, and since then he has been sailing in the family boat, at every opportunity and in any weather. At the age of fifteen, he realized a dream when he took a diving course in Eilat, and since then he has not missed a chance to dive at the various sites. He especially liked to dive in Sinai. When Gilad was sixteen, he convinced his parents to allow him to issue a motorcycle license. He bought a Suzuki motorcycle from the money he saved and thus fulfilled another dream. A few days before he was killed he managed to issue a driver’s license for a heavy motorcycle, 500 cc, and at a young age Gilad adopted a puppy and treated him with great dedication, took him to the competitions and was proud of his winnings. Gilad enlisted in the army in late November 1994. On the day of his enlistment, his friends and family accompanied him to the induction center, where he began basic training in Givati, but decided to give up his combat training. Gilad was killed on Sunday morning, January 22, 1995. On his way to the base, he fell in the line of duty when two explosive charges exploded, carrying two terrorist terrorists But only over a year after his death, according to testimonies at a meeting at the Beit Lid junction at the initiative of senior IDF officers, Gilad was killed in the second explosion, when he went to help the injured of the first explosion. And as his friends eulogized him: “Far from the sea, away from friends, far from life.” He was eighteen and a half. Gilad was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Herzliya. Survived by his parents and sister. “For thirty days I have been thinking of you with a gold wand,” he says, “seeing us breaking into pieces.” “It has been clear that there are no people with a heart of stone,” he said. / I think of your own happiness / The face of a young angel forever without wrinkle and stain / Pure and beautiful for ever and ever! / For thirty days / You know what goes through our hearts / You penetrate us in existence – Not your existence / You see us love you, / We are talking with you and your tears / Hope we are having a nightmare / Thirty days / We wait for you to watch from the other room to us / With the sweet smile and tears / tears Mine into the night / infinity. ” Students from the Epstein Jewish school in Atlanta, USA, and the Zim Company planted trees in his memory. A garden in memory of Gilad was erected on the Knesset street in Herzliya, with a statue commemorating his name. A Torah scroll was published by the Friends of Chabad, in memory of thirty-two IDF soldiers, among them Gilad. The book was placed in the central synagogue in Givat Ze’ev in Jerusalem. Gilad was immortalized in a book commemorating the fallen “Memory for the Boys”. On the first anniversary of his downfall, his family wrote: “My beloved and dear Gili, a year without you and time as if you were standing still.” You stay at 18 and a half, tall, smiling and handsome. We have no words to describeThe size of the pain, the sorrow, the loss, the despair, the depression, the sadness and especially our great love for you / you are so lacking in us and we refuse to believe / we will not see you anymore. Love, pain and remember forever. “On June 1, 2003, GOC Central Command granted Corporal Gilad Gal-On a personal citation, which was given to his family,” For the insanity of the soul, the realization of the value of evil, Heart, the discovery of resourcefulness and being a model and an example. “
