Osman, Adi

Daughter of Yael and Shabtai (Sabino), a young sister to Einat and Yuval, and an older sister to Inbar. She was born on 26 July 1984 in Kfar Saba. A clever, sociable, assertive girl who knew what she wanted, and always did everything to achieve it. With all her many pursuits, writing was and remains Adi’s main release, and the computer keyboard has become the adjacent writing tool. Adi felt special, unusual and powerful intensity. She wrote hundreds of songs, and even if externally derived from her great joy, her poems reveal a bit of her soul. Thus, on 10 March 1999, she wrote: “She was a girl who did not find herself / did not fit the environment and kept crying until one day she shot herself and reached the next world. She tried to explain to her that they did not get everything they wanted and that they had to work hard / to get things done. / But she was / She was trying to break her / but without success. // In the end she went / found out that she only wanted love / unconditional love / true love.” Indeed, Adi had a huge and loving heart, and her love served as the driving force and the basis for all her actions. Adi joined the IDF on December 19, 2002. After basic training she was sent to a wireless course in the Signal Corps, which at the end was attached to the 92nd Battalion “Shimshon”, which was stationed in Netzarim. On 28 Tishrei 24.10.2003, Adi was killed in a terrorist attack in Netzarim at the age of 19. The terrorist managed to get out of the base, but a force from the Shimshon battalion, Adi’s battalion, pursued him and killed him, about 200 meters from the base. Adi was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kfar Sava. She left behind her parents, two sisters and a brother, who served as a combat medic in combat engineering, and at the time of the attack he was only twenty kilometers from Adi. For full memorial, see Hebrew bio.