Khamida, Ibrahim

Ben Subhia and Ahmed, members of the Bedouin community. Born on October 29, 1978 in the Galilee village of Reihania, a young brother to Basem, Yosef, Yasmin and Natali. Ibrahim attended elementary school in Rihaniya and was a good and diligent student, loved by his teachers and fellow students. After completing his military studies at the Sadal School in Hebron, Ibrahim successfully completed the automotive mechanics course, and Ibrahim received a certificate of excellence for perseverance, a desire to learn and conduct. The Safed Municipality, Chairman of Amal and the Technical School in Safed Prior to his induction, Ibrahim underwent preparatory training for the IDF and successfully completed pre-military training in the framework of the Ordnance Corps. Ibrahim enlisted in the IDF in August 1996 and asked to join one of the Armament Corps units as a car mechanic, and he volunteered to serve as a combat soldier in the Desert Patrol Battalion, where he continued to volunteer for regular army service. He was a member of the reconnaissance unit of the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion in the regional brigade of the Shuali Hadarom unit, and was a partner in all of his company’s activities and in December 1998 received a certificate of appreciation and appreciation for the discovery of an explosive charge. He loved his service in the Israel Defense Forces very well S and never complained about the difficulties. He was always loved by his commanders and his soldiers, and he always offered a helping hand to his friends and contributed a great deal of his personal experience and professionalism to the success of the unit’s operations. He helped to paint the house and to arrange the garden, and he loved to ride horses, and he toured the tractor he had purchased on all the paths of the Galilee and the Golan, and he worked hard to convince young Bedouin to volunteer in the IDF . Two days before his death, Ibrahim was at home. Heavy snow covered all the roads and there was no transportation. His parents tried to persuade him to wait another day until he could travel safely, but he refused, saying that if he did not arrive on time, other friends would not be able to go on vacation. On January 9, 2002, a terrorist cell of Hamas attacked the “Africa” ​​outpost near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom. In the clash, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Hameida was killed, and was killed in the battle of the commander of the village of Kfar Reihani. Survived by his parents and four brothers and sisters, a tree was planted in his memory in the Jerusalem hills by the Hod ve-Hadar community – the Masorti Movement.