Tsafrir, Eldad (Eliahu)

Ben Batya and Efraim Born in Tel Aviv on November 22, 1960. October 1979 he joined the IDF and served in the Golani reconnaissance unit. Eldad underwent a course for combat medics and a combat-fighter course. In September 1979 he was promoted to the rank of Corporal, and his friends noted his unique character as a soldier, and he was very simple in his manner, acting according to his own mind, regardless of the opinions of others, if only he did not mind them. And a quick, thought-provoking operation, on April 7, 1980, a group of terrorists infiltrated from Lebanon, in the nursery school in Misgav Am, where the children were taken hostage by the terrorists. , Who was attacked by the terrorists and killed, and was killed at the age of 19. After he fell, Eldad was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman wrote to his parents: “Eldad (Eliyahu) Tsafrir Nathan His life for his homeland. He fell in Misgav Am when he broke into a house in which terrorists were holed up. Eldad served in the reconnaissance unit of the Golani Brigade. He was a good soldier, an excellent fighter, a lover of poetry, a loyal friend, loved by his commanders and comrades. “Eldad was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Holon and left behind his parents, brother and sister. He was named a fighter and a person with a sensitive soul, and a light and rail system was donated to him in the synagogue in Holon, where his family used to pray, after which a race was held in Passover in 1983 in Gan Raveh near Rishon Letzion. “In Afula.