Segal, Gideon
Son of Eliyahu and Hannah. He was born in the Nir Am group on March 29, 1944. He was the first son in the kibbutz after his friends immigrated to Israel, and when he was three and a half years old, the family moved to Gedera and grew up there until he completed elementary school. He graduated from the “Mevo’ot Yam” maritime school in Mikhmoret, but grew up far away from the sea and was very enthusiastic about it when he was a student at the “Mevo’ot Yam” school. He had organized and served as coordinator of the youth company in the same school, but most of all he had to mention his desire to contact the sea because he saw his future as connected to the sea. A good book was an object he always had in his hand, for he devoted a great deal of time to reading, and in the last years of his life he prepared to continue his studies and devoted much of his free time to preparation for the matriculation exams. He went to England to join the “Dakar” team, and in October 1961 he was drafted into the Israel Navy, and during his service as a permanent man, he took a naval course and saw The Navy has its future. So he also volunteered for the submarines when the course of the captains ended. Nevertheless, he was preparing to complete his matriculation exams and continue his university studies. The goal was to return to the navy upon graduation. During his regular service (three years and ten months) he was efficient and dedicated to his position and served as a torpedo officer and attained the rank of lieutenant. It is interesting to note that his experiences were raised in writing: Even when he was a child, he wrote in the elementary school newspaper and afterward was an active participant in “Mevo’ot Yam” in the apprentices’ publications. When he was abroad he wrote a few things. After finishing the course of the captains and his first voyage as a submarine, an article was published (in the booklet “Sea Systems” in memory of the Dakar team, the article was reissued). According to the Dakar families, Gideon was also responsible for the wall newspaper issued by the submarine crew during her stay in England and stabbed when she returned to Israel. However, as the submarine in this way, along the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with it was severed and was no longer renewed; This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968) – and the Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Gideon’s passing, in the course of carrying out his duties together with the rest, was on the 30th of Tevet 5728 (30.1.1968). Since Gideon was one of the missing crew members, a memorial monument was placed inside him in the memorial to the Dakar men in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Things written about him in Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker.” The commander of the navy, in a letter of condolence to the family, wrote that he was a talented and diligent torpedo officer who had skillfully and quickly adapted his profession. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.
