First Sergeant Major gilad moshel
There is a clock hanging up in the house of Shani and Moshe, Gilad’s parents, in Tel Aviv. “Gilad found the clock and fixed it with his own two hands. On the day of the tragedy, it stopped at exactly the time of the tragedy, at 18:59. Time froze. The room stayed as it was. On the wall hangs his favorite surfboard, on the shelf sit his medals and trophies that he won in sailing competitions and his things are in every corner.
Shani: “He was very humble and knew how to be happy with what he had. In the house you could always hear his laughter and the relationship between the siblings and with us, the parents, was close. He studied a lot by himself. On the one hand he was very technically talented and his friends called him ‘Macgyver’ and on the other hand he was very creative and inventive. For his twentieth birthday he asked for a sewing machine and even sewed for himself a ‘sniper suit’ in the army.”
Moshe: “Gilad didn’t talk about the army a lot so that he wouldn’t worry us. On the same day, in order to calm us down, he called to tell us that he was already inside [Lebanon], even though he wasn’t. Therefore, in the evening, when we heard about what had happened, we didn’t think that he was on the helicopter.”
Shani: “Gilad knew that he wouldn’t return. His girlfriend gave him and CD and he told her that she wouldn’t get it back. On his last Shabbat he met up with a lot of friends and family…as if he was saying goodbye.”
Shani: “He was very humble and knew how to be happy with what he had. In the house you could always hear his laughter and the relationship between the siblings and with us, the parents, was close. He studied a lot by himself. On the one hand he was very technically talented and his friends called him ‘Macgyver’ and on the other hand he was very creative and inventive. For his twentieth birthday he asked for a sewing machine and even sewed for himself a ‘sniper suit’ in the army.”
Moshe: “Gilad didn’t talk about the army a lot so that he wouldn’t worry us. On the same day, in order to calm us down, he called to tell us that he was already inside [Lebanon], even though he wasn’t. Therefore, in the evening, when we heard about what had happened, we didn’t think that he was on the helicopter.”
Shani: “Gilad knew that he wouldn’t return. His girlfriend gave him and CD and he told her that she wouldn’t get it back. On his last Shabbat he met up with a lot of friends and family…as if he was saying goodbye.”