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Garbali, Tzachi (Chucky)

Garbali, Tzachi (Chucky)


Ben Shoshi and Rafi. Born and raised in Holon on January 31, 1982, Tzachi grew up and studied in Holon, began studying at the Zalman Shazar Elementary School, continued in the Zalman Aran Middle School in the sports track and graduated The high school curriculum at the Kiryat Sharet High School. Tzahi was a handsome young man, tall and strong and an outstanding athlete, especially in basketball. At the age of 10, he played for the Hapoel Holon youth team and continued at Elizur Holon. He continued playing basketball in high school. Along with his physical strength, he had a poetic soul. He wrote many poems and recorded in his notebook. Tzachi controlled all the secrets of the computer and the Internet, loved music and games. Following the death of a classmate, Avi Cohen, who died of cardiac arrest during the formation of the paratroopers, Tzachi wrote a song called ‘So They Go Through the Beautiful Days’ and in the last verse of the song it was said: They will probably disappear, and then they will be there, in front of us, the new friends that will accompany us, but this is the way it will be, but our way is strange, the world has a problem … Our job will be to deal with the blow. , He asks the question of the question: “Who am I? what am I? “We are like sheep, like a herd without a shepherd / Death lurks for us, He will take whoever he wants / Like an immortality that emerges from among the silhouettes / … This world Tzachi was drafted into the IDF in July 2000. He wanted to be a combat soldier and join the Golani Brigade, but at the end of basic training he was assigned to the Shaked battalion of the brigade Givati. ” He was ‘poisoned’ by the army and his commanders described him as a highly motivated soldier, an important element in his department. The professionalism he demonstrated was accompanied by humor and joy of life, which brought about an improvement in the mood and was an inseparable part of the unit. Tzahi loved animals, large and small, and his comrades believed that he would eventually be the chairman of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for many months he was in Gaza, took part in many incidents and combat operations and respected them all. A few days before the conclusion of the service on the “line”, on the night of the 6th of Elul 5761 (August 25, 2001), a terrorist squad infiltrated the outpost. Tzachi and his friends fought a long battle, during which Tzahi fell with Major Gil Oz and Staff Sergeant Kobi Nir. Tzachi was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon. Survived by his parents, brother and sister. He was nineteen when he fell. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. The commander of the unit, Lt. Col. Erez, wrote in a letter to the family that Tzachi “was the mainstay of the department and was one of the most prominent fighters in it. First he volunteered for every mission and performed it in good spirits with a broad smile on his face. Was a professional and responsible soldier who performed his job in the best possible way … was a fighter and a model soldier. “His mother Shoshi wrote a poem in his memory entitled ‘I received a gift …’:” A gift I received / but I returned / pure / pure, sweet and sweet / I have received a gift for 19 years / which I returned with no other choice … / There is no rest and no rest / And there is no escape from the terrible pain / which drips slowly / into the painful soul / gift I have received for 19 years / pure as snow, pure, innocent and sweet His colleague Niv Mor writes: “Amit told me that you must already be waiting for a cell phone to be spoken in heaven, and if Pele-Phone is already there, then an Internet that can download cool ringtones and harass everyone And from above. So laugh funny and funny, rest a little for yourself now, complete sleep, and thenGet up, put a responsible eye on us from above, to the position of an angel. I’m sure it will not be hard for you to enter, because you filled him with success even when you were with us. “

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