Ben Salameh and Kamal. Born on August 8, 1972 at Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat. Salah was born on the Jewish New Year, and was published on the first day of his birth. An hour after his birth, a staff from the Voice of Israel came to the hospital to interview the women who gave birth on the holiday. They wished Mazal’s mother good luck, and she said that the newborn would be named “Salah” after her brother, who was killed while serving in the Border Police in 1971. The interview was broadcast live, and the phone rang at the family’s house. Mazal Tov to the family and a long life to his son Salah was the third child in the family, after Fouad the eldest and Sister Najwa, and when Salah was six years old, his brother, Yaman, was born in Eilat, and when he was five years old, Beit Jann, where Saleh studied in elementary school and completed his studies at the agricultural school in the neighboring village of Rama On January 6, 1987, his older brother Fu During his military service. He was eighteen and a half. Two years later his sister Fidaa was born. Saleh was very kind and popular wherever he was – in the village, in the schools where he studied, at the Technion and in the army. He loved to ride his motorcycle (which remained orphaned after his fall and was kept at his parents’ house), to swim and read books. He was quiet, smart and pleasant, decisive and thoughtful, giving, contributing and demanding nothing from others. Saleh wanted to study medicine, and before his enlistment he wanted to be a student. He began studying at the Technion and after completing his first year of studies, after consulting with his family, he decided to stop his studies in reserve and enlist in the IDF. Saleh was a soldier with professional knowledge and high motivation, who performed his duties with dedication and a sense of mission. As a son of a bereaved family, he was entitled to serve a short service. His father asked him not to think of a military career and to direct himself to an academic career, but Salah chose to go to an officers’ course, as did many of his friends. Salah completed a course for maintenance officers with great success, and was among the best. At the end of his regular service and another regular year, Salah was supposed to be released, but then he was offered the option of moving to Golani as commander of the company, on a service plan in which he left For military studies after two years in office. Saleh decided to accept the offer, even though his parents feared and opposed his service in the combat force. He was very pleased with his new unit, was very well received in the Golani Brigade and was highly appreciated by his battalion commander and brigade commander and his subordinates. Saleh was popular and accepted by all his followers and was an example of his subordinates. About three weeks before his fall, Salah was ill and hospitalized in Safed. When he was released, his parents asked him to rest for a few days at home, but he refused, and he claimed that he felt good and that he should return to his position. A week later, his battalion commander, accompanied by three other soldiers, fell from a side-loader, and Salah called his parents’ home and told them the bitter news: “A great disaster has fallen on the battalion, the IDF and the state.” His parents feared for his fate and at the end of the week, when Salah came home, they begged him to return the car to the army and stay at home. Saleh tried to calm his parents and told them that he did not enter Lebanon at all, but his parents did not calm down, even though he promised them that he would be released in two months. On Sunday morning, Salah came out of the house, shaved and polished, and returned to his unit. As he did every night, he called home to calm his parents. Three days later, on March 20, 1996, Salah fell in our heartsWhen a suicide bomber detonated a bomb that exploded on a convoy in the area of Taybeh. Saleh was brought to rest in his village, Beit Jann. He was twenty-four years old when he fell. Survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother. After his fall he was promoted to captain. His funeral took place the day after his fall, on March 21, 1996. Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yitzhak Mordechai, deputy ministers, including Deputy Minister Walid Sadek, Jewish MKs and a large crowd, visited the family home for two months since Saleh fell, including President Ezer Weizman and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, many government officials and the IDF leadership. Many consolants came from all communities and across the country, and many consolation letters came from all over the world. Saleh believed and wanted peace and on the last page of his personal diary he wrote: “You killed Rabin, you did not kill peace.” Shimon Peres, who visited the family home, was impressed by these lines and wrote: “We will continue your will.” Salah’s parents also believe in peace and look forward to it, and were even willing to meet with the parents of the terrorist who killed their son. The commander of the Barak battalion in the Golani Brigade, where Salah served, wrote to the family: “In a fascinating conversation, Salah was revealed to me as a smart, intelligent, sensitive and fair person with a sense of distinction, self-criticism and exceptional expression. And the habits that were born with them and which he received at the house where he grew up, at his parents’ home, enabled him to achieve impressive achievements. Always with Salah, and everywhere – the good eyes, the shy and charming smile, the kindness and the Human subsidiary infinite. ” About a year after Salah’s death, the Zidane family erected a monument to the memory of her two sons who fell. Salah’s parents wrote: “Salah was born on Rosh Hashanah and was taken from us on International Mother’s Day, and the memory of Salah, his brother Fuad and the memory of his uncle Salah are sealed forever in our hearts.”
