Shachar Shalev

Shachar, son of Naomi-Sarah and Shimon Shalev, was born in Moshav Aloni Bashan in the Golan Heights on September 11, 1993. In the last years of his studies, he chose to study Perek Yomi in the Mishneh, and within a year and a half he completed the Six Sidrei Mishnah.
On March 14, 2013, he enlisted in the IDF, was drafted into the Paratroopers’ Battalion and served as a combat soldier in the Paratroopers and Engineering Company. In May 2014 Shachar and his colleagues, the Ziv and Bar teams, completed their training and in June 2014 they participated in the Shuvu Achim operation to locate the three kidnapped boys.
On July 23, 2014, in the early hours of the morning, the army received an order to occupy the house of a Hamas activist in Khan Yunis. During the attempted explosion of the entrance to the house, a powerful explosive charge was detonated against them. Shachar was mortally wounded.
He was evacuated first to the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, where doctors had to amputate both legs in the hope of saving him and four weeks later he was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Shachar Shalev died on 5 Elul, August 31, 2014. He was twenty-one when he fell. He was laid to rest in the Chispin regional cemetery.
After his death, Shachar was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. On his tombstone, the verse is written: “And Jacob was alone, and Jacob was with him until dawn.” (Bereshit 32:25). More than five thousand people accompanied Shachar to eternal rest, to pay their last respects to the last casualty of Operation Tzuk Eitan. Shachar is commemorated in the bookmark of the “Perek Yomi” of the Mishnah.