Gadi, a third-year student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was born on September 19, 1950 in Netanya, where he grew up. He completed his elementary studies at the “Bialik” school, and completed his high school studies at the Tchernichovsky High School. From an early age, Gadi was one of the leaders of the class, a loyal friend with a developed sense of responsibility and justice. During his high school studies, he enrolled in the electronics department, filled the house with various appliances and accessories, and began to build electrical appliances with great skill. He also found time to engage in various sports, but especially his love for the sea was conspicuous. At every opportunity, he was given he would jump into the sea to swim or to engage in underwater fishing. When Gadi was at home and did not study, he listened to music or read books, mainly history books. Gadi’s peak of dreams before serving in the IDF was to serve in the paratroopers, his disappointment was bitter when he was not accepted, and there were tears in his eyes when he told his family about it after coming home for his first leave from the sorting base. At home, with humor and satisfaction, he wrote to his family when he reached the base of the trustees, “so that I could enter the centurion’s cab with my 1.88 meters, I would probably have to split into five halves.” we started to learn about the tank. We received a notebook and a pencil, just like in a school, and finally got rid of the PN. And I got a new Uzi (with a collapsible butt). “In the tanks, Gadi’s technical prowess was fully reflected, and he was deeply interested in knowing the tank beyond what was required of him as a pilot. After finishing a course in subjects and a course for tank commanders, he was assigned to serve in one of the units on the northern border. During the incidents with the terrorists in the Beit She’an Valley, he took part in several clashes. Later on, he took part in operations in the Fatah al-Land area and received a medal from the brigade commander in one of these operations, and he felt very gratified by the role he played, but he never boasted of his awards, his family accidentally found out, when his mother cleaned the drawer and found his ID. When she asked why he did not say any thing, he replied in a nutshell, “I got it, so what?” After three years of operational service on the line, Gadi was enrolled in mechanical engineering studies at the Negev University. Directly from the line, without any vacation, he entered the study track. The transition from the army to studies was difficult, but with great persistence and strong will, despite the short time he had, he managed to overcome and successfully pass the Concourse examinations. He began to study in the second semester, and in order to achieve the semester he lost, he studied in the summer semester without taking a vacation. After a highly successful year and a half, he successfully completed his sophomore year. At the end of the exams he said, “Now I will finally make a living.” He did not imagine that ten days later he would not be alive. On Yom Kippur he was drafted and left with the first armored force, which came to containment in the southern Golan Heights. At the level, Gadi was raised in the battalion commander’s tank, but after the battalion commander replaced a tank due to a mishap, Gadi remained without a position. Despite being a tank commander, he volunteered to board another tank as a contact-loader, after the Ta’ad-Quad was wounded. On the 13th of Tishrei 5734 (October 9, 1973), in the first wave that attacked Hosheniya, his tank was hit directly and all his crew, except the driver, were killed.
