Ben Tami and Yehiel. He was born in Kiryat Malachi, a second child to his parents, to Michal, to Orit, and to Shimrit, and attended the Harel elementary school in Kiryat Malachi. In the scientific-technological trend, Didi’s teacher of mathematics says: “I will never forget the big, serious eyes. The smile that does not leave your mouth. Your diligence, your desire for perfection, your insistence on principles. You often made me mistake me, and insisted … and did not give up! You argued that there was no answer to the question – and you were right. You got all the points. You were eligible for a longer exam, but you never used it. “Didi grew up and became a pleasant, lively and joyous boy, loved to spend time with his many friends, loved life and knew how to take advantage of every moment.” His friend Kobi wrote: “You symbolized everything I wanted to be: insolent when necessary, “His sister, Shimrit, says:” Big Brother, two simple words that say everything … A big brother reaches out and takes me back from kindergarten. A big brother puts me on his back and plays with me all the time. A number of stories and a lot of jokes, and opens the world of computers to me. Hours of sharing with favorite TV, movies, songs and dances. ‘Big Brother’ means there’s someone to take an example and who to learn … And because Big Brother is Didi, there was no doubt in my heart. I knew that wherever I was, he would always be with me. “Didi’s tendencies were many and varied, but the area that stood out was his attraction to sport in general and basketball in particular. In the basketball department at Moshav Talmei Yechiel, and since then he has been a well-known basketball player in the role of coordinator and rebounder. He always liked to laugh and hear jokes. Laughing at the height of the basketball game, when everyone was at the height of the tension. Didi won the nickname Borco for European basketball player Burko Radovic, and over the years Didi played for the Be’er Tuvia Regional Council team and his school team, and he accumulated numerous trophies that adorned his room. In the 11th grade he studied basketball training at the Wingate Institute, and when he returned he worked as a coach at the local community center, and Didi invested a great deal of energy in promoting basketball among the youth in Kiryat Malachi and gave the young the basics of the game. – As an actor, as a coach and as a judge, he joined the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, and the dream of his life was to train her one day. In July 1998, he enlisted in the army for a short period of basic training, finishing with a medal for being an outstanding shooter. He went to study at the engineering college in Ashdod. Two years later he successfully completed his studies in Electronics and Computer Engineering. He did not receive the diploma as an engineer, since the ceremony took place after his death. In August 2000, Didi began his military service in the Israel Air Force, where he took a course in the Haifa Technion for five years as a ground liaison technician. It is always right to be everywhere in the center of things … There is no doubt that if he had to represent – he was the representative. And as a leader in every way, if he had to resist, he was the main opponent … I had no doubt that he understood the material easily,And always finished at a higher than average grade. Dudu was an intelligent, first-class trainee. “At the end of the course, Didi was assigned to a base in Tzrifin, as a communications technician, who only served for two months, but immediately became fond of everyone who served with him, and demonstrated his professional and personal ability. 2001) Didi was killed in a terrorist attack at the Azor junction, and that morning he was waiting for the bus to the base, when a bus driver ran over the waiting people and killed seven soldiers and one civilian. Levi, Sergeant Kochi Polonsky, Corporal Alexander Manevich, Corporal Yasmin Karisi and the citizen Simcha Shitrit. Twenty-one was Didi in his fall. He was laid to rest in the military section of the Kiryat Malachi cemetery. Survived by his parents and three sisters. After his fall he was promoted to sergeant. His mother Tami eulogized him: “Since the day you left our house, our home has been sad, the joy of life, the bustle and the laughter that were an inseparable part of it, as if frozen. I miss so much your laughter, the magical smile that was pulled on your face, the moments of watching the television games of Maccabi Tel Aviv that you so loved … How can we digest the fact that your life and dreams were cut off at the beginning? A whole city, and an entire sky, and the whole sky weeps and accompanies you on your last journey. ” His friend wrote, Guy: “Your laughter will always be in my ears, and I will have no consolation to the world, until your heart will guide me as the pillar of fire. / Take spring and leave in my heart Autumn / I’m sure when the smile on your face was naughty / And I’ll look for him for years. ” His close friend, Odil, writes: “I always called you ‘my child,’ and so did I. I was worried about you and protected you, even though independence for you is a supreme value, and now you are a child with all of us. In places where people stop and break, you pass as if they were not there, because for you they really did not exist, and we have to look at you admiringly … My child, you are deep inside, my feelings, my thoughts, my memories. to me.” At the community center in Kiryat Malachi, a basketball school was opened in memory of Didi, who loved the game so much and so invested in it. On the anniversary of his downfall, the family published a book in his memory, “And he was like a bird in the Garden of Eden.”
