Hadar Kama

Cpt. Hadar Kama, 24, a soldier in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, was killed in combat in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023.

He is survived by his parents, Gila and Eyal, and his two sisters, Shira and Alma. Kama was related to former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir; Shayna Korngold, Meir’s older sister, was Kama’s great-great-grandmother.

On the morning of October 7, Kama was in Tel Aviv, staying with friends from his unit, when he was rushed down to the Gaza border to fend off the onslaught of Hamas terrorists. He fought in battle alongside his peers and was one of four members of his unit to die in Kfar Aza on the first day of the war.

Raised in Givat Shapira, Kama was a member of the “Five Fingers” youth movement, known for fostering leadership through physical activity and producing graduates who become IDF commanders. He drafted directly into Sayeret Matkal and was in his final year of army service when he was killed.

Kama’s death was not confirmed until October 9, and he was buried on October 11 in Moshav Herut.

In a eulogy posted to Facebook, his uncle, David Yasinski-Aloni, described Kama as a “noble boy.” Not in the aristocratic sense, he clarified, but a “barefoot noble boy, or with Naot shoes and perhaps a tank top.”

Kama was a loving son and brother, from helping his father build a gazebo in their yard, to assembling an ice bath for his sisters and planting a mango tree in front of it.

“A humble noble boy, which is the rarest [combination]… It is so [natural] that you would run between whistling bullets and explosions to save people crying out for help in their houses,” his uncle said.

“Hadari, you loved life,” Kama’s mother Gila Yasinski-Kama wrote in her eulogy which she also posted on Facebook. “You ended it with all your strength and courage.”

“You said goodbye to me with words I did not often hear you say. Two weeks ago on Friday afternoon, you said: ‘Mom, you are the best parents in the world. Really.'”

His mother added that he was killed alongside his commander, whom he loved and respected, Elai Zisser. The two shared the same birthday, July 11. “Now you not only share a birthday,” Yasinski Kama said, “but also the day of your death.”

“My beloved child,” she said, “good and heroic, rest in tranquility and peace forever. I love you.”
Source: The Times of Israel