Shiloni, Gadi

Ben Yehudit and Carol. He was born on the 11th of Tevet, 5714 (5.1.1974) in Jerusalem. Gadi was born to his parents and they had an only son, after trying to have a child for several years. When he arrived in the world, he gave his parents great happiness in his easy temper and smile. Judith, Gadi’s mother, says that he was a big baby, it was nice to hold him and was comfortable to feed and water him. Despite being an only child, Gadi was not a spoiled child. He loved the company of others and was happy to go to kindergarten and later to the Masada elementary school, where he felt already “big” and mature. When he attended elementary school and later in the Danish junior high school, Gadi loved playing basketball, and when he continued his high school studies in Denmark, he developed for himself as a hobby the weight lifting sport. He invested in training and short results when he won various competitions in this field. But Gadi’s main hobby, which he made sure to specialize in, was the computer. Throughout his high school years, and later during his military service, Gadi worked on his home computer and kept improving the possibilities of using it. His teachers also noted his talent in this field and his high abilities. Gadi continued to study electronics until the thirteenth grade of the Technological Reserve, and Gadi loved to help those around him and offered his help at all times. In May 1993, Gadi enlisted in the Signal Corps as a reservist and spent the entire time in the battalion and was accepted and loved by his comrades. The latter replaced Gadi with his commander, who went to school, and did so out of great responsibility and attention Gadi’s commanders tried to persuade him to sign a permanent army service, but after hesitation he decided to be released and began to study the field he loved – computers On February 25, 1996, Gadi fell in the line of duty, Of Line 18 in the central bus station in Jerusalem. With eight more soldiers and eighteen civilians killed. At age twenty-two, Gadi was fallen. He passed away about two weeks before he was supposed to go on leave, and was buried in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. Gadi left behind his parents, and many plans he dreamed of realizing immediately upon his release. His parents add, “In their death they ordered us to live.”