Son of Tova and Moshe. Elad was born in Rishon LeZion on January 4, 1981. He was the fifth of the six children of the family, after the girls Rakefet, Yahalom, Kalanit, and the son Harel, followed by the youngest son, Elad, who was a very delicate and sensitive child. To watch the television series “The Heart,” based on Edmundo de Amiches’ book about young Marco going out to look for his mother, while he demanded that his mother sit next to him to be sure she was with him and watched the episodes hugging the couch. Elad grew up and was educated in Rishon Letzion, where he studied at the “Harel” religious school, and in the seventh grade he went to a stream yeshiva. Shiva decided to return to Rishon Letzion, and successfully completed 12th grade at Amit-Amal High School. From an early age, Elad stood out in his studies. At the age of six, he already knew how to read Rashi, and even managed to read the Torah in reverse: On Saturdays in the synagogue, the reciter would read a verse in a Yemenite pronunciation, and Elad would immediately translate the verse into Aramaic. In the exams Elad was discovered as a gifted student and was invited to a mathematics and physics project at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and since he was a graduate of his age, his parents allowed him to travel by bus to Rehovot, And Elad was a student at the Weizmann Institute, where he also excelled in reading books Every time he was a member of four libraries at the same time, he acquired a great deal of knowledge in a variety of fields, which helped him to succeed in trivia games, thinking and logic that he loved to play with everyone. In this field, he refused to take money for his help, saying: “This is how we raise the level of knowledge of the environment.” In the framework of his contribution to the community, Elad loved his family, respected his parents and never Caused them grief. When he went to the synagogue, he used to talk to his father Moshe about reward and punishment, the Almighty, the remaining of the soul, and other matters of religion.The parents tell how in the Gulf War of 1991, when missiles were fired from Iraq toward Israeli cities, When he was thirteen and a half years old, he promised his father, with a commitment that was recorded in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Brachot: “I promise my father and mother ten percent of the monthly profits Of net income. “Elad had special food requirements, which were answered happily by his mother Tova , He liked to eat chicken but did not like the chicken, so he would get the last meal, because he had a special plate of vegetables of all kinds, especially zucchini which he loved very much, His mother laughs: “Death will forget you.” Elad was the middle son among the three young sons of the family, and he got on well with his two brothers, and sometimes he quarreled with Harel and it began to hit him, so Elad would tell his older brother: “What are you doing? The mind then you give up? “So the two fell silent and the quarrel ensued. At one point, the young brother was disturbed and the other asked to be punished, so Elad stood up to defend his younger brother and told the father, “He’s a little boy, he’ll punish me for him.” Elad grew up and became a happy young man, loved and loved. He was very fond of sports, especially soccer and basketball. LaTim spent hours on the football field, where, as his friend Ural put it, “a goalkeeper can not be subdued.” He loved pop music and Mediterranean music, and he laughed and spent time with his group of good friends who had accompanied him since childhood. Liran, Elad’s friend, described him as the closest thing to a biological twin brother. He told of a friend who can always be relied on for help and for hours of talking into the night on any topic in the world: “You were the one who influenced my life in the most meaningful way and all this in your special way. I had no idea what others were saying or doing, and before I knew you so many things I would not have done because I was afraid of what they would say, but you took me out of it. I have no idea what I was today. ” A friend of Elad said: “At a time when we were good friends, I shared your thoughts, and I listened to you and advised you many times, I told you and I shared with you a few things you knew and you always listened and made me feel good. From your advice … “In high school Elad met Dikla, who was his beloved friend. This is how he wrote to her in one of his letters: “The fact that you are in my life … I feel as though I have been given another opportunity to experience and to love … There is a very different world that lives within me now, a world that knows love, peace, satisfaction, self-confidence, pride and happiness. Thank you for being part of my new world, thank you for the times we are alone, for the quiet of your touch, for the hours we talked and for the honesty of your thoughts, about the afternoons we look at together in the world, about the hours of the night when I do not have to dream. You let me love you. ” Elad enlisted in the IDF on 22 March 2000. He chose to go to a combat unit out of Zionist values and love of the land, which he grew up in his parents’ home and was assigned to the Kfir infantry brigade. His commander, Lt. Col. Dedi, said: “Elad arrived at the base of the training unit ‘Adam’ in order to carry out basic training on his military track, which at the end was intended to serve as a combat soldier in the Kochav brigade. There is no doubt in my mind that the brigade training base Adam and the Auchatz unit lost a quality fighter and a skilled professional medic, and Elad’s commanders and friends remember him as a disciplined soldier with a high motivation and a strong desire to become a combat medic. , As told by everyone who knew him. ” Elad fell in the line of duty on Sunday, June 4, 2000. He was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion, where Elad left parents, three sisters and two brothers. Is taken from us prematurely while you are so young and full of joy. I hear your laughter echoing in the house, and I remember and hear your voice this evening when you broke the song … Elad, to talk to you through the sand and rocks is unbearable, but it is harder to think to absorb and understand that your clothes are still hanging in your closet and books on the shelf, Your character will always be with us, like your name forever. You guard us from above, and above you are the angels, because you deserve it. “” I see your image, the constant smile, the laughter and the joy of life, the constant ambition, “wrote Elal’s friend from childhood. I still do not believe you are not in my hands … God probably wanted you next to him forever, and not just your name Elad … Every step of my life you accompany me and protect me, my marriage, the children born to me. I feel you next to me, huh… I look back and see a deep void, missing the real friend I had in my life, a true friend, a secret man who gave me unconditional, at all times and with all my heart … Your picture will forever be before my eyes, laughing, smiling, happy From the world. I can not see you without a smile, because sadness is away from you … I promise you again: I will try to fulfill your dreams, your ambitions, so that you will not stop smiling. The most important thing is that you know that you are engraved in my memory … “Uriel’s mother, Esther Hodaya Cohen, wrote the song” Elad You Are Missing “: Every year my heart aches / the sons of sorrow accompany the faces / each year the memory rises / You are the child who grew up next to my son / You are the friend who connects to my child … // My heart is longing, my son hurts The pain in the face / Do not forget Brothers and the pain pounding yearning / every year The pain and the memory arise / As if yesterday happened, the pain does not heal … ” Sharabi and other friends released an album in memory of Elad, containing letters he wrote to Dikla, pictures of him and memoirs written by family and friends. They write: “Anyone who reads the album and knows Elad knows that he has always left such a deep impression on those around him, so we have left a souvenir in his memory, in memory of the same boy. Rami Shar’abi wrote: “I will cry and lament a lament after a lamentation, and I will lay my hands on the palm of my hand, weeping and weeping, “Sixty and half of it is divided with seven shepherds and eight princes, and with righteous men and righteous followers, peace be peace, peace be upon you from the Lord of Peace, and you shall teach us right before the Lord of Peace.” Mani wrote: “I planted a plant in my heart and called it Elad / This plant will blossom in my heart forever forever. If it ever cuts, I will try its roots deep in my heart, and even when I grow old and come in time, this plant will grow forever. And sorrow in my heart will never be. ” And in another poem he wrote: “Elad, joy in our hearts You have always left / and in your smile the sorrow has always broken. And now when you have left us / Our hearts with a pain that will tear us away, it will never leave us until we smile and descend from above.” Itai wrote: “Like a brother in you I trusted / You must only dream / How you left me / All my world is desolate. // Star Meir from Heaven / I will not see you again / Yesterday we were two / Now you are alone. “My father, a friend of Elad, wrote:” I hope you make everyone laugh like you laughed at us, and look after us, your friends who really love you and miss you and still do not digest what we lost. “We have to continue with life because it is the only thing we always have – the memory.” Geula, a friend of Elad’s high school student, wrote: “Every day that passes, we will grow up and you will remain young, the signs of time will not be deafened, your face and your laughter will not bleed … You have stopped standing … When we look at your picture, In you time has stopped, but you are missing us. ” Dikla, Elad’s girlfriend, wrote: “We had a good time together, we were happy together, so why speak well? There is a bitter end … You always promised that I would not leave, that we would always be together and that nothing would ever happen to you. I was always afraid that you would leave, and in the end you were the one who left, and how I could be another when all my memories would always accompany me, every word and touch would remind me of you.Strong, but how do you do it? How do I get over a guy I loved so much, and that I still love, and was so perfect to me? … only my love will know that I am here, devastated by longing, and that you will not stop and I will not stop thinking for a moment, and you will always know that you were important to me and dear and will always remain so to me. For you have left me sweet memories that will remain in my heart etched and my memory will never be forgotten. Because you will always remain the one and the most special for me, my love. “In the Nahalat Yehuda neighborhood of Rishon Letzion, the Yad Elad Synagogue was established, and every year a Talmud Torah study group from the Gemara is studying in the synagogue.
