Son of Metnia and Eve. He was born on Wednesday, February 14, 1948, in Afula, as a member of the kibbutz of Gilad, and came to the world exactly two weeks after his father was called to join the ranks of the Israeli army and the independence of the nation. Doron started the elementary school in Gilad and the first years of the school were difficult for him because the boy loved him and he found it difficult to sit in the department on the bench and concentrate on the book. But over the years, with the effect of his intelligence, he began to see the need for studies, and from year to year the results improved And after graduating from elementary school with his classmates, he moved to high school in the Yifat school, and when he entered high school, he said to himself: “At last I came to the conclusion that a person must learn in order to advance in his life.” He worked for a few hours a week, as is customary in groups, in the field of framing, and his attitude toward work was respectful and serious, and his understanding of the technique was great, and the attitude and understanding added to the efficiency of his agile hands. Because the words that made up his approach to work, which he knew great satisfaction from an early age. Sports was a favorite hobby of all and he was discovered in it especially in his last years. In his externality, he was clearly the most prominent athlete, because his movements were quick, his legs were light, and his temper was mild, cheerful, and pleasant, and he liked all his fellow athletes. He was a good swimmer and even excelled in running and light athletics. Mostly he was an enthusiastic basketball player. When he graduated from high school, he was drafted into the IDF in July 1966, and after a short training course, he joined the Nahal paramilitary brigade. The training did not pose special difficulties for him, and he felt that his athletic work had helped him and that he had benefited from it. From the very first he felt good and was proud of his parachuting exercises. After the platoon commander’s course, he had the choice to go to an officers’ course, but he himself decided that it would be good for him to experience as a counselor in several rounds and then join an officer’s course, which gave him great satisfaction, as his friends tell him. Independence 5727 took a long vacation (10 days) and these days were full of activity: Doron worked, traveled with his friends and practiced sports, of course. But here came the days of tension and at the height of his vacation he was called back to a base full of enthusiasm then; And when he came out with the thought that here was the opportunity to show what he had learned during the past year, a year of hard training, he did not forget to say, “We’ll see each other soon.” But his parents read in his last letters between the lines that he knew what he was going And what could have been his fate, because on the first hours of the first day of the war-fighting, on 26 June 1967, he fell in a battle that took place at the junction of Rafah. After the three outposts were breached, three of them continued to rinse the target, and two of them were hit and the half-track, which Doron was in, continued the mission until he was hit, and before Doron managed to jump outside, it flared up. Doron did not have time to see the country’s victory and rejoice in it. He was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and was put to rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Gilad. “Dafi Gilad”, a pamphlet in his memory, was published. Publication booklet, bearing his name “Doron”. In the book, “On Their Way,” published by the Union of the Kibbutzim and the Kibbutzim in memory of the members of the Union who fell in the battle, things were brought to its attention.
