Ziv (Zevida), Gideon
Son of Yosef and Eve. He was born on July 14, 1958 in Haifa. He attended the Giv’at Elementary School and the Shifman High School, where he joined the Scouts movement, the Galim tribe in Tirat Hacarmel, and was an active member of his class. He finished his studies in the twelfth grade, started working and came to the kibbutz a few months before the entire nucleus. Gideon was a tall, strong guy. He was loved at the kibbutz, in his place of work – in Deir – and in the youth company. A simple guy, not pretentious, but with his own character and opinion. Dedicated to work, responsible, with good hands and good Lev. He never left a friend in trouble or in unfinished work. He liked everything. Gideon was drafted into the IDF on 29.9.1766 and assigned to Nahal, as part of the Hermesh nucleus for Kibbutz Magal. After completing basic training he was promoted to the rank of corporal and was promoted to the rank of sergeant and was later promoted to sergeant sergeant, who was a tough commander, but always knew how to feel good for his subordinates With an eternal smile that he kept after training, stubborn and humble, but always a good friend and assistant, loving life, lively and energetic, and never complains, Gideon had friends everywhere and on all levels. Everyone loved him and admired him as a soldier and a man. He fulfilled his role out of a deep sense of mission, and his last wish was to join the paratrooper corps towards the end of the service. On Tuesday, April 4, 1978, he fell in the course of his duty in southern Lebanon, during Operation Litani, was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, and left behind his parents, brothers and sisters in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, “I remember his expression, when I told him and his friends that they were going up to the north, it was not,” wrote his commander, “the late Ziv, as we called him, his friends and commanders, An expression of sorrow or anxiety, but on the contrary, I saw an expression of a smile, of pride, of devotion and a desire to realize it with complete readiness … Gideon was one of the best commanders in my unit. And as such he had the right to command the farm people who went to the north. He received this mission as a reward for his devoted work. “The members of the” Hermesh “group published a pamphlet in his memory, and his family commemorated his name in the Joseph Hayim synagogue in the Carmel Tseirat.
