Lahav, Shaul

Ben Yehudit and David. He was born on July 16, 1983, in Kibbutz Shomrat, where he was born in reserve duty in Lebanon and arrived at the hospital only the day after his birth, and his parents immigrated to Israel from New York, In 1972, and his father immigrated to Israel a year later, Yehudit joined Kibbutz Shomrat as part of a Nahal group, and after their marriage David and Yehudit built their home in Kibbutz Shomrat, where Shaul grew up and was educated. He studied at the Lohamei Hagetaot elementary school and from a young age was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In 1985, his brother Liron was born and four years later joined the sister family Neta. His mother says that when Shaul was six, she heard shouting from the living room one day. She came running and found him lying on the carpet and Neta, who was less than a year old, lay on him and pulled his hair. When his mother asked why he did not move her, he replied, “I’m afraid of hurting her.” From an early age and despite his great strength, Shaul did not use force or evil for others. Shaul studied in the junior high school and high school at the “Ofek Education House” on Kibbutz Evron. As part of the technological program, he studied twice a week at the Sulam Tzur School in Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv. During his studies, he worked in the kibbutz’s landscape industry. Shaul was a talented athlete and a member of the volleyball team and the local baseball team. In November 2001, Shaul enlisted in the Nahal Brigade, where he served as a combat soldier in the Nahal Brigade’s Basalt Battalion, and during the course of his service he was found to be a fighter with leadership abilities and at the recommendation of his commanders In the Infantry Corps School, and on his return to the battalion he was assigned to the Spear Company and was suitable to serve as a company commander … “If he had a son named Saul, a good man, and no one of the children of Israel was better than he and higher than all the people” (1 Samuel 9: 2) ). ” Shaul was tall, smiling, kindhearted and full of joy, very fond of his comrades in the company, and his constant smile made him feel calm and secure. Shaul was killed in operational activity when he was the commander of a checkpoint stationed at the entrance to Jerusalem in order to protect civilians from terrorists, on Tuesday, November 18, 2003. A few minutes before the end of the shift, a man approached the checkpoint. Shaul advanced towards him, preventing the terrorist from hitting other fighters standing at the checkpoint. He was buried in the military section of the cemetery at Kibbutz Shmeret and is twenty years old. Survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother.