Madi, Saleh

Son of Nada and Naif. Saleh was born on 1 July 1950 in the village of Mughar, a fourth child to his parents. He studied at the elementary school in the village, completed a course in frameworks and worked in this field prior to his enlistment in the IDF, and joined the IDF in 1967 and served in the 300th Brigade on the northern border. On July 4, 1973, Salah joined the Border Police. Saleh excelled in his work and was adhering to the cause. He received several awards for excellence over the years: Shortly after his enlistment, he received the Yom Kippur War. After a series of kashrut training, he received the operational service signal. Saleh’s friends and commanders praised him for his generosity, for the joys of life, and for the Yaffa relationships he had created with those close to him. In 1976, Salah married Foz and established his home in the village of Majar. Where his four sons were born. Salah loved his family and was very attached to them. Every evening he was free and every day he would take advantage of the yeshiva with his wife and sons. He gave them all his feelings. Saleh loved landscape and nature, cultivated his home and garden, and during his leisure time went hunting in the countryside. Saleh fell in the second Tire disaster. During the Peace for Galilee War, while the IDF was operating against the PLO and Hizbullah organizations in Lebanon, the Border Police acted in collaboration with the Shin Bet to liquidate the nests of terrorists in the city of Tire. The fighters were housed in a facility that had two two-story buildings. On Friday, November 4, 1983, at 6:00 am, a pickup truck drove from the Rosh Hanikra-Zur road to the facility, which was surrounded by a dirt embankment and a perimeter fence and was secured with constant protection. The pickup truck drove the gunner’s suspicion and opened fire. Another guard who noticed the incident also opened fire at the suspect. Despite the fire, the truck broke through the entrance gate to the facility and entered between the two buildings. The suicide bomber detonated the 500 kilograms of explosives in the car and caused the buildings to collapse. Sixty people were killed, including twenty-eight members of the security establishment. Sgt. Sadi Saleh fell during his service. He was thirty-three years old when he fell. He was buried in the cemetery in Mghar. Salah’s family eulogized: “Our family was left without a leader, and one of its best devoted fighters was uprooted.” After his fall, Salah was awarded the Peace of Galilee