Nebra, Gadi

Son of Darius and Renate, from Italy. He was born on January 7, 1951 in Kibbutz Regavim. When he was two, he traveled with his parents to Milan and stayed at his grandparents’ house for two years. He celebrated his fourth birthday in his home in Hadera. He completed his studies at the Arlozorov Elementary School in Hadera and studied for one year at the ORT high school in Netanya, but a year later he returned to Hadera and studied with his friends at the high school there. He received his matriculation certificate in the spring of 1969. During his studies he visited Italy several times and spent several months in England. As a child, he called himself “the Sabra from Milan.” His character was “Sabra” – closed and connected to Israel. He loved the Negev and traveled extensively in Israel. At the same time, he absorbed Italian culture during his visits to Italy. In the drawer of his desk were postcards of Michael Angelo statues and on each postcard he translated into Hebrew the Italian text. When he first came to Venice when he was three years old, he saw the movement of boats in the square, the architectural-artistic beauty of the square, turned to his mother and said to her, “Mother, I sing.” Gadi was the connecting link between the past and the future. He insisted that he be given the furniture of his grandfather’s office, his desk and his old closet, where he furnished his room. On the walls of his room he hung pictures of “pop”, a map of the moon and paintings by Walt Disney. In one of the drawers of his desk he kept art pictures, and in the rest of the drawers were tools, engine parts of models and parts of watches he had dismantled in order to learn their mechanics. He had “golden hands” and technical talent. When any correction was needed they always turned to him, and never failed. Gadi was a member of the airport club in Hadera. During the vacations and during the period before his induction, he worked with his father in the Hadera paper factory. He was drafted into the IDF in July 1969 and volunteered to serve in the Israel Air Force, where he spent more than a year in the Air Force, where he moved to a unit in Sinai and later served in the center of the country on July 17, 1971, He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Hadera, and his teacher said: “There was a masculine and matter-of-fact skepticism about him. – – – He asked: What right do adults dictate the goals? Why should we decide immediately? Who said we should get organized and get along according to the adult world? What is wrong with a little satisfaction of wondering, of questions, of not deciding yet? – as if his soul were made of qualities that do not join together: standing by and observing from here, taking part and joining from here. And that demands from here. But in fact, it was made up of one division. And a one-hand effort to make and understand. “A memorial corner for Gadi and his friends was set up in their unit, and the unit issued a commemorative album: the National Aviation Club awards a trophy trophy for Gadi, and a new wing was built in the Givat Olga youth club. Rafah, named after Gadi and his friends “Beach of Enrichment”, not far from where they fell, was placed a huge granite rock in their memory, “Gilad the teen”; a moshav in the area named after “Nativ Ha’asara” Issued in their memory by the families.