Goldel, Ehud-Ya’akov-Eliezer (Udi)

Son of Hannah and Isaac. He was born on the 3rd of Cheshvan 5709 (November 3, 1968) in Safed. Here he began his studies at the religious school in Birb. In the fifth grade he moved to the “Aryan” religious elementary school, where he completed his elementary studies, and then continued high school in Pardes Hannah, where he was active in the Bnei Akiva branch in Safed as an apprentice and counselor. On Shabbat, when he did not come home from midrashia, he volunteered to teach at the Bnei Akiva branch in Karkur, and his students in Safed said: “Udi was always known as a ‘rescuer of situations’. On Shabbat the organization in the Nitzanim tribe, when we were already on the verge of despair of decorating the room, Udi came straight from the Midrashia, filled with energy and original ideas. Indeed, our exhibition was the most attractive of all, thanks to him. “They conclude:” Udi was known as a guide with energy and resourcefulness. Ehud always loved to travel, and there was no trail in the Galilee that he did not travel in, or a stream that did not drown in his water, and when he got home after a trip he knew what his next trip would be. He was drafted into the IDF in late January 1987 and served in the infantry brigade of the Golani Brigade. About a year after his enlistment, he began to study in the course of the Intelligence Corps, and on the occasion of his 40th birthday, Ehud received an outstanding soldier’s certificate from the Northern Command, Yossi Peled. What you do, you do to the end. The commander wrote: “excelled in all those special and wondrous qualities: the friendship, the diligence, the initiative and the extraordinary responsibility for everything that was imposed on you, with true devotion to every mission.” On Tuesday, 19.5.1988, Ehud fell during his service and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Safed. Survived by his parents and two brothers – Gideon and Yair. After his death he was promoted to sergeant. His family donated a Torah scroll to the Minyan Blum Synagogue in Safed, and also helped publish a collection of issues by Avreki, including the Rabbi Yosef Karo National Torah Center in Safed. At a farewell party to Noa, a counselor at Bnei Akiva in Safed, Udi wrote to her: “And the main thing is not to go big – to search for ourselves in distant and hidden worlds, but to be ourselves.