Peleg, Avi (Avihu)
Son of Ephraim and Yael, was born on July 4, 1962, in Kibbutz Na’an, where he was the eldest son of his family and was named after his two grandparents: his mother’s father who fell in the War of Independence and his grandfather, The elementary school in Na’an and the Brenner regional high school on Kibbutz Givat Brenner, and from his childhood he loved Merhavim, and he also had a high technical sense – he loved cars, especially the tractor and his work. His friends said he was “really a child – shy, modest, very sensitive, closed and introverted.” Shortly after completing basic training he left with his unit for Operation Peace for the Galilee, in the role of Pless. On June 10, 1982, on the fourth day of the war on the central front, a Syrian plane attacked the half-track on which it was driving near Ein Zahlata, and six other soldiers from his unit and two soldiers from another unit. He was hit by a missile and all the soldiers in it were killed. Among them was Avi. He was 20 when he died. He was laid to rest at Kibbutz Na’an. Survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother. In memory of those who fell in the same half-track, a monument was erected in Ma’ale Efrayim, above the settlement of Gitit, which is composed of the remains of the destroyed half-track.
