Goren, Adam

The youngest son of Aliza and Yigal, brother of Tali and Hanan. Born on 18.1.1985 in Kibbutz Ma’abarot, where he grew up and was educated. Adam was born when his mother turned forty, and she saw him as the most wonderful birthday gift possible – a beloved and precious child, intelligent and wise. He wore a permanent, special and characteristic smile, like “I understand, I know everything.” Indeed, he was such a man: curious, sensitive, with a high verbal ability – but quiet, shy and modest. He began his studies at the “Yuvalim” elementary school on Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad and in the middle and high school of the “Ramot Hefer” experimental school in Kibbutz Ma’abarot. As a young man, he belonged to the local branch of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and went to activities and camps all over the country. Adam’s main hobby was in the field of sports: he practiced intensively at the gym, and he collected religiously material about football and basketball in Israel and abroad. There was no group that Adam did not know: the players playing with it, its history, and the staff. “If you woke him up in the middle of the night,” his parents say, “he would have memorized the group’s successes, its failures, and what causes each of them.” The Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team began to admire another young boy. On the occasion of his bar mitzvah, a meeting with the actors was arranged in his honor, and he was not happy when he received a football with the signatures of all the members of the group. Although he was exposed to much better teams over the years, Adam continued to keep Maccabi a hot spot in his heart. Music was another area he loved very much – especially guitarists. Joe Stryani, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, The Beatles and Barry Sakharof – all heard at a high volume, “because you can not hear guitar rock at a low volume,” he explained … Adam’s curiosity and ambition to learn and know Turned him into a mature man with vast general knowledge, a sort of “walking encyclopedia.” There was no crossword puzzle that no one solved within minutes, and there was no question left unanswered. In addition to sports, Adam was also interested in history and kept up to date with current events and politics. “Adam was shy and quiet,” recalls Aliza, “but when he spoke he would say precise things, to the point, he would always check things before he reacted and before he acted.” In the bacterium of love of cinema, a man is infected by his brother and mother. His favorite styles were adventure films, action and suspense, and after watching, he used to sit with Hanan and analyze the films in depth. As in other areas, here too he became an expert, and there was no actor or director who did not know the details. Adam was a very mature man and older than his age. At the end of 12th grade, he wrote to his classmates on the school’s Internet forum: “I do not like to give speeches, certainly not long and boring … So I will try to shorten the words: , Or something he did, for better or for worse! … I really hope that we can, each and every one of his friends, continue the engagement and friendship … because membership is not only three years in high school, it is much more than that! With God’s help and with his help, we will be able to hold a reunion (in perhaps twenty, thirty, forty years) in the presence of everyone (with God’s help)! ” “Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” said Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, “Ask Not Your Country Can Do For You” – a short but powerful sentence that summarized the values ​​a person believed in. And indeed, a person who aspired to do a significant military serviceIn an active and dominant brigade, and upon his induction, on 30 November 2003, he chose the Armored Corps. He was trained as a liaison officer in the “Merkava Mark 4” tank, and served in the “Shelah” battalion (46) in the “Ekevot ha-Iron” Brigade (401). His commanders and friends spoke of his modesty and testified that he performed all his tasks professionally and skillfully. He loved his fellow soldiers and the battalion and saw them as brothers. “He was poisoned and always worried about the guys,” said Shaul and Amichai, his friends in the service that had accompanied him since high school; “He would have closed his twenty-one right and left and did not say a word, he had only that shy smile, as if he were looking at everyone from the side, his whole life was like this: he was introverted, but in his eyes he saw that he had everything. ” Adam’s period of service was characterized by security instability in the wake of the terrorist attacks of the al-Aqsa Intifada, and Adam and his friends spent many days at IDF checkpoints in the territories and in guarding settlements, feeling a certain frustration, expecting to contribute and realize their capabilities in a more significant military operation. Since he was not by nature a “diamant”, he did all his tasks in the best possible way, and always maintained restraint vis-à-vis the Palestinian population, telling his brother, Hanan: “He never spoke in a frenzied manner. “With the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, a man was placed in the reserve for the combat forces, and for three months he remained until the liberation. Adam was not supposed to take part in the fighting, but insisted on joining his fellow fighters – “I have to be there,” he said. “This insistence clearly demonstrates a person’s personality and character – a person who places his friends and his mission as a supreme value, a person who will always perform and help, all in good spirits and with a smile.” Finally, Adam got what he wanted and was attached to a tank under the command of a major Construction of the Rhine, which was dubbed “building power.” The tank gunner was First Sergeant Uri Grossman, and First Sergeant Alex Bonimovich. “During the war,” construction forces “engaged in complex and dangerous operations to rescue the wounded under fire, and to transfer supplies and intelligence materials to the fighting forces Deep inside Lebanon. The tank crew was involved in three heroic rescue operations: the rescue of eight fighters from the area of ​​Hezbollah’s destruction after their armored personnel carrier was hit by an anti-tank missile under the al-Taibeh ridge, rescue of wounded soldiers from the reserve battalion, Edelstein, after the “cruel” armored vehicle he was traveling in went up in flames. The last rescue mission was not enough for Adam and his colleagues to complete. A man fell in battle in Lebanon on August 12, 2006, on the last day of the Second Lebanon War, on his way to another operation to rescue the wounded. The tank that was in it with his friends in Khirbat al-Kassif in the eastern sector was hit by an anti-tank missile fired at them north of the Litani River, causing the tank fire to explode, and the four crew members were killed. His uncle, Itzik Goren, told him: “My youth returned from battle, the hero of the air force returned. His soul was cold in the hot red. And we bury you under the heavy, fragrant earth, and in the shade of the trees you look back in your green eyes. Burned in our memory, the subject of our longing, a mystery to our dreams. Our man, how many plans you had planned, how many dreams you dreamed-how everything seemed as light as our meetings. … Be peace, my child, lay a soldier – rest. “After their fall, he was given a wet manBrigadier General Gad Shamni, GOC Central Command, “For sticking to the mission and striving for victory, a personal example and friendship.” “First Sergeant Adam was an outstanding soldier, and it was not for nothing that he was joined as a soldier in a team that was all commanders, and for more than a week he performed his role with determination and perseverance, at great personal risk. … Staff Sergeant Adam Goren demonstrated exceptional determination, personal example and spirit of volunteerism throughout the fighting. “A man was immortalized in a gym named after him at Kibbutz Maabarot, the kibbutz members wrote:” The gym that will preserve the memory of Adam will be an active and vibrant place, The young and precious spirit of life that was cut off in their hearts, and thus, we hope, will express the spirit of a person and preserve his memory in the act of life. “The gymnasium, whose real name is the Happiness Room, Physical education that we passed and accepted in our youth. … Man – control details, compositions, methods, names that no one could pronounce. One of his ambitions was to visit Real Madrid and see Raoul, who he thought was the best … But as already said, man makes plans and God laughs. “Your man – a boy, a boy, a handsome, smiling and kind man, naive, inquisitive and knowledgeable, a soldier devoted to the army and friends, someone to be trusted. Even the war went without doubt, he could sit on the side because he no longer belonged to any team, and yet joined the “building force” and together fought valiantly to rescue the soldiers who fought in the field. And for this they received a commendation, because there is no greater danger than your soul for the soul of another person. … The image of a man rises before our eyes and he is beautiful and smiling … “On the second anniversary of his downfall, Aliza wrote:” Adam, my sweet son, not a day goes by that I do not think of you. The longing is so strong. In the mornings, when I go to turn the curtain in the window, I touch your big picture on the wall. Caressing your beautiful face, the green eyes, and drowning in them. … Adimikosh, my beloved son, I miss the Arabs who sat together in front of the television and we saw movies with the good and bad guys, we laughed at the pathetic figure of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, and you always tried to imitate and even quite success. … I miss so many little things that always stay with me, like the way you would hum a tune under my nose – that’s how I knew everything was fine and good for you … You were and remain my beloved son. We will leave the telepathic contact between us. I’ll always worry about you. “His aunt, Ora Goren, wrote:” Adam, for two years now – and to build him full of you – every day, every hour. The parents – who gave birth, raised, protected and guarded – were escorted from kindergarten to school, from high school to the gates of the base, but a cursed war devoured everything, leaving a deathly silence that commands us to cope. With the worst of all, and since then we have a great responsibility to hold on to life and to fight in the endless silence … to breathe life into the experiences that are shared with you, to remind and to remember … we hang our eyes in longing for your pictures. / Something has died in us – and something, remains with it … ‘”In memory of Adam was established a community of comforters on the Internet, whose address is: http://www.evelnet.co.il/personal/p_eu logies.aspx? sid = 159. “From a relatively young age, they tried to teach us that time is the best medicine for all the pains,” Eliran wrote. “And here we are, after almost three years, and this pain, which I really did not believe could pass at any time,His braid remained scarred from that terrible moment. This scar is one of the few scars that do not hide, on the contrary; This scar is in her chest on the left, I’m proud of her, very proud. My brother, it really does not matter how long it has been, and how much time will pass, you’ll always be with me, even if it’s a little far away now. Brother, I love you. “A friend wrote:” I remember the first rain, after you left. I was very worried about you. I thought it might be terribly cold down there and so wet and unpleasant and maybe you’d like to get warm, so get up and go home. … How much did I think, ‘What did this boy feel deep in the fire zone?’, ‘Does he eat well enough to fight?’, ‘He must be crowded in a tank, and he sweats and can not complain …’ A hero with green eyes. With your smiles you could stop the war. How safe I am that you have run away in your head for songs and music, because everyone needs something to calm him down. A retreat, a desert island in the middle of the brain. People do not know how many such islands you had. I’ve always loved you. You always had a shy look, looking for gold on the floor, and a reassuring smile. Lie calm, you can not get hurt anymore, hurt, hurt or feel. “The commanders and friends of a man in Battalion 46 created a film that shows his character, and the film was uploaded to the Internet and appears at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvPK5hDZlLs. Led by Ilana Dayan and Gilad Tokatli, accompanied the four mothers of the “Construction Force” team for a year, in which the death of her sons linked her life with an irreversible connection, which produced the loaded and touching film “Seeds of Summer” , At http://www.mako.co.il/mako-vod-mako/movies/VOD-f25129c92f24021006.htm Adam was twenty-one years old when his parents left, Aliza and Yigal, the sister of Tali, and brother Hanan. To engrave words from a poem by W. “He was our north, east and west / our sand day, the days of the holiday, the days of spring and fall / he was the song, the moon / and every star we saw / loved you forever.”