Gan-Mor, Nadav Yosef

Ben and Vivi and Moshe. He was born in Jerusalem on April 15, 1979. Brother to Gal and Efrat. He spent his childhood and youth in Ramat Hasharon. He attended the “Oranim” elementary school, the “Neve Magen” junior high school, and graduated high school with distinction from the multi-disciplinary program at the Rothberg High School. Nadav was handsome, captivating, and always attracted attention with his smile that conquered them all. He was warm, sensitive and curious, with a delicate, complex and wonderful soul. From time to time he radiated a sweet childishness that stood out against ambition, meticulousness, and ardor. Nadav always excelled in everything he did, and aspired to perfection. He was always surrounded by friends and friends, his room and his house were a regular gathering place, every weekend and every holiday. Nadav’s time is divided between two groups of friends: the boys ‘group and the girls’ group, each with a different character. Nadav knew how to be sensitive and attentive to each other, and all in his smiling and charming way. It was a social center for everyone, with love and joy. Nadav liked to travel in Israel. As a child he participated in summer camps of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and during his junior high school years he chose to be in a navigation class. He was able to visit abroad on various occasions, discovering great curiosity and following different ways of life, and easily adapted to the style of the place he visited. He was not the first time he visited the United States, he did not hesitate to go out alone to meet and hang out with friends; New York suited him, and he dreamed of learning and living there after his discharge from the army. After completing his studies, Nadav was “abducted” to a pre-military course as part of the Intelligence Corps’s “Haman Talpiot” unit, where he was recruited for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces. He joined the army at the beginning of March 1998 and was assigned to the Intelligence Corps. Nadav took his own life in tragic circumstances on the 14th of Elul 5758 (4.9.1998) and he is only nineteen years old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. The manner of his death was so surprising and astonishing that he was always a man of peace and a beginner of violence. His parents, sisters, family, and friends remained stunned and hurt in the face of the vast space that had opened up in them and endless wondering and deep questions about this terrible loss. This space has been filled with love ever since. “Are not you so intolerable that we have you and you did not go at all?”