,אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים, שׁוכֵן בַּמְּרומִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכונָה
,עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה בְּמַעֲלות קְדושִׁים, טְהורִים וְגִבּורִים
כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ מַזְהִירִים, לְנִשְׁמות חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Sari, Gilad
Ben Aviva and Yosef. He was born on the 27th of Sivan 5746 (2.7.1986) in Karnei Shomron. When he was three years old, Gilad died at the death of his brother Shahar, who was born after him, and he is only four months old. A curious child was Gilad, loved to learn and wanted to experience everything. He had a bright smile on his face, and a spark of mischief in his eyes. From childhood he was a natural lover, an animal and a man, with excellent physical fitness and a joy of life, and his rolling laughter was heard from afar. He liked traveling very much, and would make trips as a reconnaissance cruiser. “There was not one puddle that you did not check,” recalls his sister Maayan, “you were connected to nature, you raised chickens, you dreamed of building a goat pen …” Gilad was educated in Karnei Shomron, in the Masua State Religious Primary School, at the “Shomron” high school yeshiva, and at the “Halichot Olam” high school yeshiva where he completed his studies. At the end of the eleventh grade, he decided to devote himself to the study of Torah that he had desired, but he accepted his parents’ request to complete his matriculation exams, and also studied in the second class of the hesder yeshiva in Karnei Shomron. This was not an easy task at all, but Gilad, who was not afraid of hard-to-achieve goals, stood up in a respectful manner. Most of the day he attended the hesder yeshiva and joined his friends in mathematics, computers and English. He studied the rest of the subjects on his own. “Very smart and very sharp,” Gilad described his teachers and teachers, “with tremendous ability and determination.” Nevertheless, there was a great deal of humility in Gilead, and Rabbi Mendelsohn, an educator and director at Yeshivat Halichot Olam, attests: “He did not look straight, but he knew how to say – with politeness and with very gentle determination – his truth.” Rabbi Avrahamov, his teacher, adds: “In Gilad we shared these two attributes – truth and peace – and so it was so difficult for him to deal with the differences in Chazal. A boy who studies, examines, searches for and seeks out the truth, who wanted to unite and make peace between different issues and methods from the desire for truth that he had in his heart. “Gilad was very outstanding in his studies in” Halachot Olam “and was a central and influential figure. “The friends said,” the unique combination of wisdom and strength, innocence and integrity, thoroughness and purposefulness with mischief mixed with joy of life, captivated the hearts of his friends. ” Straight and honest man without compromises and borders, with innocent innocence through conscious choice, no wisdom, no crooked ways. Anything you say – will accept it literally and literally. “And added:” On the one hand there was a lot of timidity, innocence, modesty, humility, gentleness. “Gilad was a lighthouse,” summarizes Ayala Chen, his sister, “he told us about everyone who knew him.” When Gilad was chosen to serve as a counselor in the Bnei Akiva youth movement, they wrote to him His guides: “You, or even you, can not hide your talents hidden in you. This is how you are: a great and talented man, full of virtues and integrity … The heart is full of newness, renewed constantly … “Indeed, Gilad was an extraordinary guide in many ways – a guide to life. Means to rise up, even if at times contrary to the opinion of society. Who bravely strives against the current, God will always be His helper, father and mother. … Look for the truth and deny it as a group and as a single … “In his actions, Gilad symbolized the unity of the people of Israel, and the love of giving and kindness was a guiding light for him, and he did everything in secret,And from the few revenues he had, he made sure to set aside regularly for charity. In addition, he supported friends who dropped out of the frame. “You had a righteous son,” she wrote to his parents, the mother of his classmate, who helped him in his distress and encouraged him to study Torah. After graduating from high school, Gilad began studying at the “Torat Hayyim” yeshiva in Neve Dekalim. During these years he formulated his own view of Torah life – halachic follow-up according to Maimonides’ approach, along with an in-depth study of the Bible. “Gilad looked for the root, the connecting and unifying point in the infinite sea of the world of Torah and the Holy World,” explained his teacher, Rabbi Avrahamov, “and therefore he studied specifically the Bible and specifically Rambam. . ” Gilead spent his soul-searching every day – how much he had managed, how much he had improved, and what he had to be careful about in the future, attesting to this as a thousand witnesses from his personal friends who were found after his death. Before he enlisted in the IDF, he wrote: “… I want to work for you with all my soul, my heart and my heart, for I long for you in my midst. I do not want respect from men. I want your holy Torah, your wonderful closeness. “And this is not an ‘annual trip’, but believe me, this is the greatest experience there is, the true and the eternal …” After nine months of study at Yeshivat “Yeshivah” “In the framework of the Disengagement Plan, Gilad decided to return to the hesder yeshiva in Karnei Shomron, and to enlist in it.” As an exceptional physical fitness, Gilad did not enlist in the most combat units, but his limitations allowed him to serve as a combat soldier only in ” Artillery Corps. “When he was drafted in late 2004, he was assigned to the Keren Battalion and began basic training, and it was important for him to understand everything, so he did not give up to his commanders, During his basic training, his commanders and friends learned about his good qualities: the heart of gold, the ability to give endless, self-immolation and self-empowerment, his commanders called him, and for good reason On his back – almost all along the route – a friend who failed, Ofer Yatziv, his commander in basic training, said: “… Gilad managed to bring himself to the levels of giving and self-sacrifice, which I do not remember. Gilad is putting aside his pain, his difficulties, and in fact himself, in order to help his friends. “He goes on to say about Gilad’s modesty and spiritual contribution:” Every time he was given a compliment, he would deny her a false claim that he was not worthy of compliments, Imposed on him. … a man so simple and modest but at the same time so smart and complex, with extensive knowledge; Each of my conversations with him would open my eyes … “Gilad completed his campaign with honors, and as a token of appreciation for his significant contribution to the team, his commander decided to give him his cap, and in the advanced training Gilad was a very responsible and disciplined soldier, During his long training, during the long days and sleepless nights, Gilad performed flawlessly with great responsibility and dedication, and was appointed to serve as the best and most responsible officer in the team, but Gilad resented this choice because he wanted to be a contender, , Maximum alertness and extraordinary concentration – and this in order to contribute more His friends did not feel good, Gilad served simultaneously in both positions, and did so with great success: “A person who is in need of people when they need to,” testified the friends. , Decided to return to the army of his own volition, and complete three years.His friends and commanders greeted him with open arms and with joy, and Ram Kidron, commander of the Keren Battalion, said: “Gilad was the most outstanding soldier I had in the battalion, very exceptional, diligent and caring, initiating, giving and helping. ” In the Second Lebanon War, too, Gilad displayed personal responsibility and initiative. While waiting to go to Lebanon, Gilad pressed his commander to teach him the secrets of his command function so that he could serve as his backup. Gilad’s friends knew him as an honest and genuine man with principles, who aspired to the truth and stuck to it even when it was difficult, and he was greatly respected and respected. They were thrilled by his simplicity, his innocence, the fact that he did not stick to materialism and did not wrap himself in the chains of technology. “Gilad has something very deep inside, inner order, honesty, sincerity, pure and pure,” they said, “a rare person.” Gilad regularly carried a Bible with him, and it was well known that he was able to rise to the Torah without any prior warning, and he took every minute to sit in the army synagogue and learn, even when the atmosphere around him was empty: “You need a lot of strength, D. “To get up early in the morning to pray, to know how to retire while working aside and to bless, to continue to observe mitzvot and to observe the light of the grave in such a framework.” From time to time, Gilad was asked to deal with halachic problems raised by his friends. “He was full of pomegranate, knowledge, qualities, abilities, skills, but he never took pride in it,” he was told. “Know you,” his secular friends told his parents after his fall, “that Gilad actually sanctified the name of God in his size and manner.” A magnet for encouragement was Gilad, and a source of strength in moments of crisis. “Be strong – there is a Creator to whom you can turn, everything is directed from above and everything is good,” he would preach to his friends. “Gilad was the light to the nations and the light of the dike!” The friends declared, “he had the radiant inner joy of a mature, crystalline man who knows his purpose in life, a joy that alternates easily to the rolling laughter of those who love life and creation.” Indeed, from Gilad – who in the difficult moments stood out in the wide smile he always had on his face – all of them took the strength to take everything easily and in the right proportions. As a veteran soldier in the battalion, it was also important for Gilad to fight for the rights of the young soldiers and served as an ambassador for them to raise feelings of injustice. He often violated his dignity and his position in the battalion and replaced the young soldiers with guard duty – an act that is unacceptable and does not create a vision in the army. As someone who was known for his devotion and diligence, Gilad was chosen to accept the responsible and prestigious position of a noncommissioned officer (“commander” who is not an officer) “Alpha.” Indeed, Gilad’s “Alfa” was a thing for cleanliness, A battalion commander, Gal Shalev, said simply: “Even though I was in the position of officer in the battery, he was the wise old man of the embankment.” In light of all this, his commanders unanimously decided to award him battalion honors – a medal awarded to the most valued soldier Among his hundreds of soldiers, Gilad used his vacations at the house in Karnei Shomron to take a trip to the nearby Nahal Kana, where he identified every plant and fleet The birds were really the lovers of his life, and he saw them as the crown of creation, through the observation of the birds’ ways, to learn about the greatness of the Creator – this, too, is a path of Maimonides. Gilad loved Jerusalem and on every occasion he traveled there – at the Western Wall and every site of its sites, including in the Muslim Quarter. This was also the case with the entire Land of Israel – he found it difficult to understand how to leave the chosen country; “The Land of Israel is my country, I love this country, the most beautiful country in the world,” he said at the end of his service.First sergeant Gilad Seri fell during his wet duty in the Golan, on the 9th of Kislev 5769 (9.12.2008), early in the morning, after a sleepless white night. It was a wonder, how the chimneys of the sky opened as soon as his friends found him, and heavy rain fell to the ground. Everyone cried in that class because of the tremendous pain, and some of them even lay down on the wet ground. Gilad, only twenty-two and a half years old, was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in Karnei Shomron. Survived by parents, three brothers and three sisters. “We have always known that you are of great stature,” his father eulogized him. “But we were astonished to discover now how much you have been able to conceal the size of your stature!” His mother wrote: “… you were a man of principles … You have been conducting a lot of dialogues with the Almighty, and in all of them you have only sought to rise in size, so that you will not be caught in a pinch of envy … And now, High – everything is cut off. ” “You have good hands with a good head that is well connected to action.” You had great honesty and truth, simplicity and great innocence. “If you were here, you would probably not agree to all the commotion that was created around you … You were always looking for your place, the truth here in the world … We will try to adopt your measurements in our lives … As much as possible, to be meticulous in mitzvot, to add to the people of Israel rights … “. “You have left us far more than Gilad,” wrote his friend Moshe Amitai Geulai, “You have left us a complete Torah, a path, a Midot, a joy in every situation. Our lives … Thank you, Gilad. ” Gilad’s family is now working on commemorating him in a variety of plants, including the establishment of Mitzpeh Gilad in Karnei Shomron, overlooking the Kana stream, where a relief of the Kana River Reserve and a map of the tribal lands will be placed; (Torah and Midrash) – such as Talmud Torah for children according to the Yemenite tradition, weekly Torah and Bible lessons, and Bible quizzes In the framework of the “Halichot Olam” Yeshiva for the elevation of his soul, and in this framework, the family is also involved in establishing a Torah study room which will be named after him and in preparing a book in his memory.