Kedmi, Hadas

Was born on March 23, 1964, in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, near Acre, where Hadas attended elementary school and high school in Kfar Masaryk and was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. Hadas loved sports, and played volleyball with the Hapoel Naaman team during her high school years, she traveled with the youth volleyball team to compete in Europe, Hadas liked to paint, and her 12th grade thesis was on painting . After completing her high school studies, she refused to join the IDF in one year and went on to study Middle Eastern studies in Givat Haviva, where she served in the Intelligence Corps in July 1983. She completed several courses, continued her Arabic studies and completed a NCO course. In March 1984, Hadas was promoted to the rank of Corporal, and in November of that year she was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and on December 29, 1984, Hadas set out from her base in the direction of her home in Kfar Masaryk. 1984) Her body was found in the Carmel Forest, near Kibbutz Beit Oren, where she was at the age of 20. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote to her family: “Sergeant Hadas Kedmi gave her life for her homeland. She was murdered in the Carmel Forest near Kibbutz Beit Oren, on her way from her home to work. Hadas was an exemplary, responsible, orderly, devoted to her work. She showed a high professional level, independent, calm, honest and sensitive to social justice, socializing, helping her friends and helping them as best she could. “We have accompanied Hadas in the unit since her enlistment in the IDF, and after completing a long and arduous course, she was assigned a responsible position in the north of the country, where her potential was first discovered. Her dedication, skill, and sensitivity quickly turned her into a central figure among the soldiers of the base, never complained, and always knew how to take on new tasks with great seriousness And with uncompromising responsibility she stood out in her desire for social justice Beyond what is accepted by similar soldiers in the corps, thus greatly assisting the success of the unit and the army. ” Hadas was laid to rest at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk. She left behind her parents, two sisters and a brother. The family and the kibbutz published a booklet in its memory