Peled (Hartzfeld), Gilad (Gili)

Son of Hanan and Hedva. He was born in Kibbutz Sde-Nehemiah on June 7, 1951. He completed elementary school in Sde-Nehemia and continued his studies at the Hula Valley Community College in Kfar Blum. As a youngster, he collected books and pamphlets on all sports and read them in depth, countless times, later on he belonged to the football team of Hapoel Kfar Blum, restless and outwardly rebellious. But he did not need to say “sorry” because he had different ways of doing so, without the need for an explicit statement. At the end of the elementary school, Gilad chose to work in the field of flora, and at that time the work in the field involved a great deal of physical effort, and the difficulty was in towing irrigation pipes for hundreds of meters. Several of his comrades tried to persuade him to change the job, but he did not give in. The same tone of determined determination and refusal to give up was found in one of his letters from the army. But only because of his strong will to not surrender. Gilad was a sensitive soul. He was very enthusiastic about the Bible, though outwardly tough, he was always smiling, optimistic, and radiant with joy, one of his hobbies was listening to modern music, saving a stereo phonograph and investing time in his collection of special taste recordings. All his friends gather in his room to listen to music and have a pleasant time, and in early 1970 he was drafted into the IDF and joined the Nahal Brigade, and his strong inclination to sport motivated him to play sports in the army. In his role as a sergeant in the Nahal Brigade, he treated his comrades with utter simplicity and hated the distance between the commander and the soldier. At the same time, he demanded obedience and discipline from his apprentices. He loved his apprentices and they respected him. When Gilad was about to leave his service as a division sergeant, Gilad was elected to the national basketball team, and there was no end to his happiness when he learned that his participation in a sports instructors’ course had been approved. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Sde Nehemia, where he said that Gilad was a child of limited strength, but he developed an iron will and great ambition: to persevere, to be first, and to win, Gili, “a nickname that characterized him very much, because he had a joy of life and personal charm.In” Huliot, “the leaflet of the Sde Nehemia group (from June 1972) wrote His classmate: “Gili was there that was enough to cheer us up because we never saw him sad or gloomy, but cheerful and exultant and enthusiastic, and even if he pressed something, he always knew how to disguise him with laughter and laughter.”