Son of Moshe Chaim and Ona. He was born on September 22, 1944, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he and his brother and sister acquired love for the heritage of Judaism and Zionism in general and the Land of Israel in particular, and the knowledge that all people (including persecuted and discriminated Negroes) He studied at an elementary school and at the same time attended the Hebrew school next to the Beit Yisrael synagogue, where his father served as chief rabbi, and at the age of 12 he went to Israel for four months and spent four months in the Auschwitz group. With his brother and sister, with his parents to immigrate to Israel, and during his Bar Mitzvah ceremony in Johannesburg, his father told him that he was “dedicating” him to Israel. The father donated the money he received when he parted from his community in Johannesburg to build a youth club after his mother, and in 1964 the family moved to Jerusalem, and the father was convinced that the struggle of the State of Israel The eldest son graduated from the naval officers’ academy in Acre and served in the navy as deputy commander of the submarine, while Adam joined the military boarding school at the Reali School in Haifa, as did his brother Gideon And Benjamin when their time comes. His brother Joseph served as a company commander in the Armored Corps. Adam enlisted in the IDF in August 1962 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he was transferred to the officers’ corps and the Armored Officers Course, and was appointed commander of the platoon. The commander of the corps was appointed to train armored corps recruits and excelled in his human and military approach to his subordinates, and in 1966 he was discharged from the service and left Studying International Relations at the University of Sussex in England Professor David Vital, the head of the Department of International Relations at Bar-Ilan University, under the supervision of a man in England, said that in his extraordinary diligence and perseverance, Adam named Israel.In the days of the Six Day War, Adam made desperate efforts to return to Israel, He went to search for his battalion, and did not even bother to visit his parents’ house first, and he continued to serve as a company commander in the battalion for another two months. Although the war created a new connection between him and the country, and devoted most of his time to visiting the families of his bereaved friends, Adam went back to England to continue his studies. His good friend wrote: “… I hear from the guys who work so hard in the reserves and disrupt their studies, and I am debating the way, not of the distant future but of the near future. In another letter: “… What I am asking you is to write to me, if and when it seems to us that we are returning to a very serious situation, so that I will not be caught here again when there is a real war in the country. After two years of study in England, Adam decided to return to Israel to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studied for a year there and completed his studies in economics and political science. That same year, Major General Yisrael Tal was asked to return to serve in the permanent army. He responded to his commander’s proposal and was stationed as a tank commander in Sinai, where he spent many days with his friends there and rarely came to his home, and during his last vacations there were signs of apprehension and tension On March 24, 1970, , When he commanded a tour of the northern section of the canalThe cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He was promoted to the rank of Major after he fell, because he had already served in the Major General’s rank recently, and at the grave he was eulogized by Major General Lahat, who said: “The IDF and I lost a commander and a man who had a future inside … Adam was among the first handful of officers He returned to us a few months ago and explained that he had asked to join us, because in his opinion the service in Sinai is the highest and most loyal service, and I am convinced that the service of the Patton tank is very good. The most that can serve the people of Israel today. “I was Simcha to join him and said that the good people did not always join us His commander in the battalion asked Adam not to take this tour – his last tour, but his moral integrity did not allow him to agree that any of his subordinates would risk the danger that he had not yet risked and thus fell. There are a number of commemorative works in his memory: a permanent stipend given every seven years by the Women’s Union of the United Progressive Community in Johannesburg to a Negro child studying at the MH School. A bungalow named after the Association of Men of the Community, donated to a low-income children’s camp in the Natal district of South Africa, a minibus for transport of deaf-mute children, donated by the grandmother, Leah Gelman of Bulbayo, A recreation center in the Jerusalem Forest and a playground that was established by KKL-JNF with donations from friends of the family around the world, a scholarship for one year to an Israeli studying in Paris by “Kol Yisrael Haverim” “In Bulabayo (Rhodesia), donated by grandmother Leah Gelman, a memorial plaque at Temple Beth El in Long Island, erected by Rabbi Sandrao, and in the Beit Emet Synagogue in Chicago, the Bar Mitzvah Fund at the Mavakshi Derech Synagogue in Jerusalem , For the purpose of purchasing a book for anyone who reaches the mitzvot, a help fund on behalf of the aforementioned synagogue, which provides financial grants to disadvantaged children in the school Denmark comprehensive risk Studies in Jerusalem. Every year on the distribution ceremony was held armor grants graduates eighth and twelfth grades; A hundred-tree garden and a registration certificate in the JNF’s “Golden Book” were donated by the JNF Committee in Cleveland, USA, a permanent scholarship from the National Association of Progressive Women in South Africa at the Leo-Beck High School in Haifa A permanent scholarship to the naval officers’ school in Acre, donated by the Friends of the South African Maritime Society, a research prize in his name at the University of Sussex in England donated by his family, “Neve Adam,” the name given by the family to their home in Abu- A weekly Gemara gathering in his name, which convenes once a week at the Atid House of the Conservative Movement in Jerusalem, In Israel and abroad. After his brother Major Gideon was killed during the Yom Kippur War, two factories named after Adam and Gideon Weiler were established in Eilat, a recreation area and a playground, oneg Shabbat lectures by professors of Jewish studies and the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem Were established by the father, a study room in the Danish school, an annual prize for two students at the military boarding school for their excellence in Oriental studies, founded by members of the Center of Advanced Rabbis in the United States; The “Questions and Answers” section of the “Nativ Meir” Yeshiva in Jerusalem was donated by an anonymous person.
