,אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים, שׁוכֵן בַּמְּרומִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכונָה
,עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה בְּמַעֲלות קְדושִׁים, טְהורִים וְגִבּורִים
כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ מַזְהִירִים, לְנִשְׁמות חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Gilor, Noa (Rachel)
Noa, the eldest daughter of Leah and Yitzhak Alkolumbra, was born on August 24, 1964 in Bat Yam. Sister to Nissim and Shahar. As a daughter of new immigrants from Turkey, she grew up in the first neighborhoods that emerged in Bat Yam. She was educated in the elementary school “Yitzhak Sade” and completed her studies at the ORT Ramat Yosef high school. Noa was a schoolgirl, which is hard to say about any of us in this generation. Her love for reading, books, language, and words was so intense that she became one of the main factors in her adult life. Noa Ahava Shira, and especially the poetry of the old Land of Israel. She knew all the lyrics of the old songs, the ones that everyone knows only to hum, she would fall asleep to the sound of “My Country of Love” and wake up to the tune of “My love is white-necked.” Noa’s favorite radio program was, of course, “Four in the Afternoon” at Galei Tzahal – a program of songs from the Hebrew song repertoire, in a nostalgic atmosphere, and she listened to it every day. On December 26, 1982, Noa enlisted in the IDF, to become a designated officer, knowing that she was going to serve a little more than usual. During her twenty-three years in the IDF, she served in a number of positions in the Armored Corps, in the Paratroopers Brigade, and in her last position served as Head of the Reserve Staff Section at the Home Front Command headquarters.Noa never imagined that she would serve her entire life in a demanding, In the early years, whenever she reached the status of permanent status, she hesitated whether to sign again. Only later did she accept that the release from the IDF would be only at the time of her retirement, at a much later age.Noa was always waiting for a “post-army trip,” but realized that there was no need to let her go. “My dear, the Indian experience is an experience of colors, smells, and magical sights,” she told her partners on a trip to Israel. Through your eyes, India looked more colorful and astonishing. Your huge love for India has permeated me and I know I will return to India. Even before she went to India, she began to approach the spiritual world, and was increasingly interested in yoga, meditations and connecting with the soul, and the journey to India completed the process, and Noa began collecting crystals and gemstones. “No,” says Ziva Weizman, who served with Noa at the Home Front Command, “… she would have made up her mind, A song about every word I took out of my mouth. It was impossible to get away from this jukebox that paid attention to every word and word in the song, and made me think deeply about their meaning. Thanks to her I learned to read between the lines, to understand and connect to the complexity of simplicity, to the spiritual, peaceful and balanced world that was in fact a large part of her world and the routine of her life. “Noa’s love for books grew stronger, and Noa was eagerly gulping down the books one after the other, sinking into the story and giving herself to the word. , Until it became a human dictionary of the Hebrew language.The two large bookcases, filled with books, which were left behind, are silent testimony to this love, and when you open the books, you feel the movement of every page and page. , Was always interested in the welfare of anotherAnd less on its own. Noa came from love, and her friendships were friendships of truth, friendships for life. “At first our relationship was based solely on the job, but over time we got to know each other and became real friends in the heart and soul,” says Ruthie Kurt, who served as her assistant while serving as head of the IDF employment center. … Together, we shared a lot of hours of fun, of soul-searching, with mutual cooperation about everything that happens to us in life. “Ziva tells of the profound influence that was affecting her life:” … it will sound a little lukewarm, but the attention and interest that the girl This attracted her personal charm and the way she managed to melt the walls of my hard heart created societies described only in books. On the day we met, I had a girlfriend. Witty and brilliant that required us to believe only in light, warmth, and love, a great sister. A mature nurse. I envied her the way you envy a big sister whom God has blessed with all talent. As a nurse, she taught me to look boldly at tomorrow, to always look at the half-full glass, to understand that life leads in different paths, but that I will not worry, that in any way I will find reinforcements. “Indeed, although during her life she had experienced quite a few difficulties, Where she would never fail, and humor, in particular, would be a place of honor, Ruthie brings examples: “Once she forgot my birthday. She called after a few days to apologize and asked me, with her special humor, “Do not leave me off.” On one of her dates with a man who introduced himself to the Internet as a chubby, Noa met him and saw a very fat man and with her graceful assertiveness, You have to be aware that you are not chubby, are you fat? “Although in her last years she had become a spiritual person, there was always something very earthly about her, connected to the ground and the reality, and even when she got the news that she had cancer, she planned to continue her life as usual. Noa chose life, talked openly about the disease, and believed that everything was for the best, Orna Barbibai, the chief sergeant, talks about the conversation she initiated “I realized that this was going to be an unusual conversation (I had early hints). She said she was sick, but she was kind of natural. When I realized that she did not come to talk to me about the disease, I asked her, `What do you really want to tell me? ‘ “Noa said to me: ‘Look, I would like to be in any situation in the army, I want to stay in the army.'” As far as I was concerned, it was a kind of will, and I said to her, ‘Noa, you are in the army. This conversation had a close and extraordinary connection with moving. … I gained the moving due to the disease. ” In the last two years before her death, Noa fought with great mental strength in cancer. Noa expected to return to her position, to her friends, to the framework, but on the 24th of Cheshvan 5768 (November 5, 2007) her soul parted from her body, and she was forty-three years old. She was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon. Bat Maya left behind her parents and two brothers. “I, along with the people here, came to salute you, my fighter, for fighting the most difficult and important war, the war for life, fighting for your life, And for a moment you did not give up on the joy of life In my most difficult moments you held me where I held you Mom, I thank God for the gift he gave me, to be your daughter In the short time that I was given – I thank you for every moment, On your own, to be a good person – like you ‘my love, my neck-white’ – the nickname you gave me the songs of Eretz Israel that you loved so much – I mayI will not see you again, but yesterday you moved to a place you would never leave, and no power in the world would take you out. Mother, you live within me, in my soul, and there I will carry you everywhere in my life. You will be there at any moment, sharing every decision, because reality does not matter – my mother will always be there. “Dear Na’a, I met you about a year ago, smiling, generous, with a glowing look in your eyes,” said Colonel Gadi Agmon, head of the Home Front Command. You were optimistic, you were hungry for life, you were safe on your way, sure you would be able to fight and win this damn disease. You captured our hearts in the joy of life, in age and in the light that radiated around you. You were safe on your way and stuck your trust in all of us. ‘An uninvited guest comes to visit’ – you said. A guest comes and goes. And last March we were already thinking that here the visitor had gone, but ‘the walls of clay closed on you and the arrows ran after you.’ … Noa, how important it was for you to continue to serve with pride in the IDF … The sense of belonging and togetherness and the desire to be part of you accompanied you – accompanied us – until the last minute … Even your personal belongings are waiting for you. To the security of the IDF and to the strength and fortitude of the Home Front Command and Israel. We salute you today, farewell salute, we salute you today for having the right to be part of you. “On the first anniversary of Noa’s death, Maya wrote:” Mom, a year ago I stood here, in exactly the same place, too stunned to begin to understand the magnitude of the pain. Choked with tears, I assured you that no matter what, you would always be with me and accompany me every step I took. A year went by, a year of constant thoughts, of waves of recollection, of longing that tears the stomach out of pain. But also a year of hope, of thinking ahead and of embarking on a new path. You loaded me with tools so useful that you almost seemed to have been afflicted with that day all your life. My beloved, no one will ever understand what you have been for me and what it is like to be without you, but to my joy, you have raised me magnificently and you have left me with so many memories I never, but never, will never forget. “Noa died, but in her spirit she never left.” In March 2009, a singing evening was held in her memory, in which her lovers raised lines of her image: “You agree with me that if Noa had to plan a farewell evening , So it was exactly the way it looked, so the supervisor is missing, she is gone, but her intensity is definitely felt … We both have a very special common denominator, both of us really like reading, and we also had a kind of trick in talking about books because Noa When we talked about books we could open a different kind of window, because we do not talk about moving – we talk about the story, and through it we analyze Maya a little, I was able to understand the sequence of generations, and later on, when she got very sick, I understood where this optimism came from and where it was placed.I could also know from close up what the values of Noa, She told me the way she was in a very bad situation and she would not get up … but when we were told that we had arrived, she told me that she was not very good, She just got up … She got up, sat down, and talked. We talked and laughed. It was a surrealistic event, you see the person in the most difficult situation, she gathers herself, increases, and brings herself to a place of strong desire to be with us. … I haveA feeling that if her destiny was to die as a soldier, she would want these wonderful people to continue to accompany her, and I take it with me to life, to a great understanding of what we represent as soldiers. “Ziva said:” … when I think what she would do if she heard everything I planned to say about her, she would probably get up and try to get me out of here as soon as possible. I swear I could not think of another way of describing what she would have done. In fact, I would never have been able to think of the exact manner in which she would respond to such a situation, for although I knew each side of her occupying personality, I could never predict what her next step would be or how this girl was going to surprise me now. … as a society it was just for the sad, joyful, and calming moments. A very simple girl, but not simple at all. She was able to solve and manage things exactly the way she wanted. Safe in herself and her actions. She never regretted it. She devoted herself to work and frames, she appreciated life, she did not take too much to heart. She never stopped dreaming, fulfilled many questions, and gave herself everything possible. … a friend who never called me by my name and always used these innocent names of time, like a favorite or a lover, simply because she was so attached to the Land of Israel of yesteryear. With those songs she hummed incessantly, her simplicity and popularity as well as being a real spoiled princess – the contrasts in her so exciting personality were among the things that made me want to stay and hear from her. Nothing disturbed her bright happiness, nothing made her inner light turn out. … She was actually the character that affected my life in the clearest and clearest way possible. Noa, she’s a lot of me today. Noa, I love and miss a lot. “