Lehar (Lexberger), Gideon (“Gidi”)

Son of Mordechai and Ruth. He was born on Wednesday, 8 November 1937, in Givat Brenner, his parents from the Zionist pioneering movement in Berlin, and was paralyzed within a year, but within a year he overcame the illness (except for a defect that remained in his one leg). In all the joys of childhood and happiness, Momo did not stand in the way of his life, aspiring to be “like everyone else” and society helped him with sympathy and understanding, and he contributed his own special qualities: high musicality, outstanding talent, humor and social devotion. His physical powers also developed his mental powers and he became the center of society in his enthusiastic performances in the school’s dramatic band, in the flute In his “Black Sabbath” (29.6.1947), his father was taken to the Rafiah prison and Zvia (who married his father after his mother left Givat Brenner) went abroad to escape and immigrate to Israel, Giv’on Brener’s command during the War of Independence, and during the battle for the opening of the road to the Negev, the uncle fell and his father took command of the agriculture, and in those days Gideon made exhaustive physical training to overcome his body’s malaise and prepare himself for military service. He belonged to Hanoar Haoved. In October 1956 he was drafted into the Israel Ordnance Corps and participated in the Sinai Campaign. Although Gideon was disqualified from serving in the IDF for the first time, he did not accept his sentence and appealed to the Supreme Medical Committee. He successfully passed the training, was sent to a workshop in Eilat and there he was promoted to his first rank. He was sent to Sharm-a-Sheik but Eilat attracted him and attracted him to her opportunities for initiative and activity. On his return home, Gideon initiated his class to join the Kibbutz Hameuhad company in Eilat and fought for their right to establish a new farm in the Arava. He became the pillar of the company in Eilat – and his Simcha day was one day in February 1963, the day of aliyah on Eilot land near Eilat. Who is one of its founders. From 1959 until 1966 he was a member of the kibbutz and he held many different positions: secretary, cultural coordinator, treasurer and more. As a representative of his kibbutz, he fought for the right to exist in dignity, negotiated with the settlement institutions and fought for additions of members so that they would not remain a single unit. On the occasion of his wife’s illness, Gideon was forced to return to Givat Brenner, but he continued to accompany his farm in Eilot in the hope of returning there. With the state of alert before the Six-Day War was among the first to be called the flag. He fell on the fourth day of the battles, on the 9th of Iyar 5727 (8.6.1967), while carrying out his duties. He left a wife and a daughter. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Givat Brenner. Hakibbutz Hame’uchad’s memoir “Who Fell in the War” was mentioned. In the book “To the Fallen”, which was published by his kibbutz in memory of his fallen sons in the 5727s, a special section was dedicated to him, and Eilot published Gideon’s diary in memory of another member of Eilot (Amir Hirschman).