Gordon, Tal

Tal, son of Orna and Vladimir Gordon, was born in 1981 in a village in the Yekutia region of the North Pole and two years later, the family returned to the Ukraine. In 1991 he immigrated to Israel with his mother and his sister. The family settled in Kibbutz Afik in the Golan Heights. In March 2000 Tal enlisted in the IDF and served as a combat soldier in the Haruv Battalion. During his service he underwent basic and advanced training, and together with his company carried out operational operations in the Shechem area during the fighting there. As an outstanding fighter, a serious man and a leading figure in the company, he was chosen to leave early in the course of a course for squad commanders to whom the top ten soldiers in the company were chosen. Tal managed to stay in the course for only a week before the enemy fire caught him. Tal fell during his service on December 8, 2000 in a shooting attack that occurred in the Beit Ha’arava area. Tal was on his way home from the base in the Golan Heights when the bus he was driving was fired at. Fifteen minutes’ drive from his home, he was hit and killed. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Survived by mother and sister. After his fall he was promoted to sergeant.