Ben Tzippora and Ilan. He was born on July 27, 1971, in Kibbutz Palmach-Tzuba. Nadav was named after his uncle, his father’s brother, a pilot who was killed. The family consisted of four brothers and two sisters. Nadav and Dan Teomim were very important to them. He attended the elementary school in the Palmach-Tzuba and went on to the Brenner regional school in Givat Brenner, where he worked as an instructor in Nitzana. After completing his 12 years of schooling, Nadav, with the help of his girlfriend, Dafna, organized youth from kibbutz schools and together they set up the 13th project, a third year of service before the army, where they lived in Nitzana and studied history and geography, Youth. “When he was in 12th grade, he participated in the Department of Judaism and showed great interest in this subject. In his thesis he worked on an advanced technological project. He prepared a job in knowledge of the program, its absorption and adaptation to the needs of the school. Along with all this activity in his public work, he found time to engage in his artistic hobby, in photography, as evidenced by his many pictures. He found great satisfaction in the garage work, he had a sense of hands and a lot of love for this work. At the end of November 1990, Nadav was drafted into the IDF, volunteering for the Golani Brigade, the core unit in the Reishit project, completing basic training and being assigned to the battalion’s battalion in the brigade. The most arduous of rashes, and of the songs of innate homeland songs, was an excellent soldier with command and leadership skills, a man who knew a book, punctual and obedient, who could be relied upon at all times. , In front of the northern settlements, and Company B of the Gideon Battalion received a unique mission that penetrates the border The security forces came in. On October 20, 1991, Nadav fell in combat in Lebanon, and when the force returned from its mission, a roadside bomb hit the right side of the APC. He was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in his kibbutz, Palmach-Tzuba, where he left behind his parents, two sisters and three brothers, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant after his death, and then sent a letter to the bereaved family, His commanders wrote: “Nadav was one of the best among us. The smile that was always on his face, the desire to help his friends, turned Nadav into one of the leading soldiers in the company and in the unit. The Gideon family has lost one of the best in its history. Sometimes it seems to us that in a generation that saw in its eyes the Holocaust and its wars, the endless war on terror on all its fronts, it is somewhat burdensome for our judgment, this sequence of events. It makes it difficult for some of us to discern that, in fact, from eternity – from Jonathan ben Shaul to Nadav – the rebirth of Israel depended on the sword of a few of its sons. The legacy that Nadav has left us, the sergeant, and this fearless spirit, the warm, thirsty heart, the love for the landscape, the bird and the flower, the belief in the righteousness of the road and its taste, we will take care of and preserve for ourselves. The group organized by Nadav at Nitzana is called “Nadav” in memory of him and continues his activities in the important enterprise he started with, following his voluntary service before enlisting. “Nadav’s memory was also immortalized in the heart of the desert, which was placed in the fields of Nitzana and carrying the lines of Nadav’s poem:” In this deafening silence / you can notTo hear anything / but with a step / step that will lead you / to the cliff / to infinity / to the wilderness, to the fire / into you. “
