Gerber, Gabriel

Son of Moshe and Rachel. He was born on January 23, 1956, in Nirvator, Hungary, when he was less than a year old when the family emigrated to Israel after receiving an exit visa that she had long desired and had worked for for many years. The family settled in Beer-Sheva and was sent to the Independent School of Education in Beer-Sheva and later to the Or Yisrael Yeshiva in Petach Tikvah. Shevat Super Pressburg in Jerusalem, but the prolonged separation from the house weighed heavily on the sensitive boy, and was then transferred to the nearby Yeshiva Tushia in Tifrah, near Be’er Sheva. By the time he enlisted in the IDF, Gabriel had stopped studying accounting, so that he would have a source of income in the future. He was accepted as a clerk in the religious council in Be’er Sheva and was very much loved by the staff he worked with. Gavriel chose to serve in the Nahal Brigade and joined the “Modi’in” nucleus of the Ezra religious educational movement, which for a time he was one of its members, and entered the canteen at the end of July 1973. At the end of the Yom Kippur War he was still in basic training, Together with his friends in the Golan Heights, to assist in the loading of weapons.In addition to a course for riflemen, he underwent a course for machine-gunners, and was marked as a good and disciplined soldier. He loved the kibbutz, the fieldwork and the lifestyle in it. He forged close ties with his comrades in the nucleus and shared their joys and concerns with them. He was also destined to share his bitter fate with some of them. He fell during his service, on the 30th of Tishrei 5736 (30.9.1975). He was brought to eternal rest in the Zichron-Meir cemetery in Bnei Brak. Survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters.