Gabi, son of Naomi and Aharon, was born on March 1, 1951. In Tel Aviv, he was an outstanding athlete, and was able to swim when he was two years old and when he was a student in elementary school In the name of Ahad Ha’am in Tel Aviv, he was the best athlete in the school, and he was the first in his class in all sports and served as the goalkeeper of a youth soccer team in Maccabi Tel Aviv. He was diligent and found time for all, for studies, for sports and social life, and he was loved by all his friends and served as a leader without imposing his will on them. After graduating from elementary school, he decided to try and be accepted to the military boarding school, which was established next to the Hebrew Gymnasium Herzliya, and among the hundreds of candidates he was among the eight who had been among the first graduating class. He continued to excel in sports, and was a member of the Gymnasia basketball team, which won the high school championship, and was able to cope with the burden of studies and hard training. Of the eighty students who began studying in the first class, he was among the twenty-nine who finished. Gabi was drafted into the IDF in early 1969 and asked to join the air force, but due to his height he was prevented from doing so and he was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he continued to play in the Maccabi basketball team and was offered a comfortable position so that he could devote himself to the sport. In December 1970, he completed a training course for armored corps officers and was appointed as a guide in the Armored Corps training base, after which he was appointed commander of a platoon and a company instructor, and in March 1973 Colonel Armor was sent to the course, at the end of which he was appointed deputy company commander. In the army, too, he continued his athletic activities, and there was no sports day in the Armored Corps, which he did not participate in. His subordinates admired him and saw him as a commander who could be trusted and trusted, who would take care of them and guide them correctly when necessary. His commanders saw him as an excellent officer whose future in the IDF was assured to him as one of the best officers in the Armored Corps, and his commanding officer wrote: “Responsible, entrepreneurial, diligent and disciplined. Is willing to invest the maximum in the success of the unit, efficient and loyal and has extensive professional knowledge. Gabi was one of the most wanted officers in the Israel Defense Forces, and at the end of August 1973 he married his girlfriend, Orit, who met her at a military base. When the first barrage of fire landed, an armored force immediately went out to repel attacks in his sector, and during the fighting he kept calm and calmed his men, never raising his voice, and his orders were balanced and measured. A large number of enemy tanks and his men, with half of his upper body exposed in the turret (10.10.1973) Gabi was killed and killed in a battle near Tel Yosipun, and for many weeks his fate was announced, and he was declared missing. Shaul was survived by a wife and parents, and was promoted to the rank of Captain in memory of five other members of his family, who was planted near Eshtaol in 1951 – is the year of their birth – as the “grove of axes”; In August 1974 and August 1975, a basketball team for boys was named after Maccabi Gabi.
