Peles, Galia
Daughter of Dorit and Hanan, was born on May 5, 1963 in Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley. Galia studied at the Kibutza elementary school and the “Beit Yerach” regional high school on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Galia was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement and in Gadna, and in the seventh grade she took a training course and taught younger children. “During the adolescence, Galia became introverted and began to write songs that expressed an honest and sensitive personality.” When she was 19, she collected She sang in her notebook and called to her: “Poems from the Lev, Poems of the Years of Adolescence.” And after her death she found the notebook, and in her poems Galia wrote about the beauty of nature, loneliness, thirst for love, human relations and bereavement, and after graduating from high school, Galia received a camera from her parents. She began to discover her talents and feelings through the lens of the camera, and in her photographs she expressed her love for her landscape, the fields, the flowers, and the children in which she took care of her holidays. She underwent basic training and courses, and was later assigned to the Intelligence Corps. In July 1983, she was promoted to the rank of Corporal on March 23, 1984, on her way from the military base to a vacation at her home on Kibbutz Gesher, where she climbed on a military car, and after a few hundred meters, “Galia served on several bases in the unit for a year and a half and was responsible for a serious and responsible matter within the framework of the Intelligence Corps, which she performed with exemplary responsibility. Her good Lev and charming smile made her atmosphere feel good. Her kindness radiated in every direction, and so her friends wanted to be with her. Galia did everything she had to do – even beyond that, even when her work involved difficulties and inconveniences. “Galia was buried in the military cemetery at Kibbutz Gesher, leaving behind her parents and sister. On the anniversary of her death, a booklet was published containing her collection of poems, compositions and photographs, and two of her songs were composed by a composer, a member of a kibbutz
