Samal Adi Groman — requiem.nw

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2004 2023

Urim BaseOctober 7, 2023

Served with Border Defense Corps.

Her life

בתם של ענת ואסף. נולדה ביום ו' בשבט תשס"ד (28.1.2004) במושב חוגלה. אחות לאיה, עלמה ואביה. ביום 2.8.2022 התגייסה לצה"ל ושירתה בחיל מערך הגנת הגבולות. רב טוראי עדי גרומן נפלה בקרב ביום כ"ב בתשרי תשפ"ד (7.10.2023). בת תשע עשרה בנופלה. היא הובאה למנוחות בבית העלמין האזרחי בכפר חוגלה. הותירה אחריה הורים, ושלוש אחיות. לאחר נפילתה הועלתה לדרגת סמל.

Her story

Sgt. Adi Groman, 19, a fighter with the Border Defense Corps’s 414th unit, was slain on October 7 while battling a Hamas invasion of the Urim IDF base.

Her family and friends said that when the invasion began, Adi was on duty at the base next door, and volunteered to be among those to help defend it from the Hamas terrorists. The ensuing gun battle blazed for more than 90 minutes, during which the team neutralized several Hamas gunmen, and Adi was fatally wounded.

She is survived by her parents, Anat and Asaf, and her younger sisters Aya, Alma and Aviya. She was buried on October 11 in her hometown of Hogla.

“Adi was my close friend from the team,” her comrade, identified only as Cpl. Daria, told Channel 13 news. “She really, really cared, she never stopped, even when she was afraid of something. I’m very happy that she was with us, and that she helped us to operate. We needed her there.”

Sgt. Hadar said she went through training with Adi, “and from then until her last moment, she was the best warrior there was. She was incredibly professional, she was just [a source of] light. She was the best friend possible.”

Her family, who are raising money to dedicate an ambulance in her honor, described her on the fundraising page as loving history classes in school, and “loving music, and singing and dancing at every opportunity. Adi infused the atmosphere around her with smiles and joy.”

In an interview with Channel 14, her father, Asaf, said, “Adi loved the army, she would go back every Sunday morning with a smile.”

He said that she called them around 6:30 on that Saturday morning, but they were sleeping and did not hear the phone. Adi then called her grandmother, Batya, “and told her ‘Don’t worry grandma, I’m in a protected place.'” At 10:30 that night, the family got a knock on the door informing them that she had been killed.

“She was a girl who loved life, loved music, live concerts, was beloved by her friends,” Asaf said.

October 7, 2023

It began at twenty past six in the morning with rocket fire and a coordinated crossing of the perimeter at some thirty points.

At the Nova music festival near Re'im, three hundred and sixty-four people were killed. Most were in their twenties. They had been dancing since before dawn and had nowhere to go across open ground.

In the kibbutzim and villages along the fence - Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Nahal Oz, Holit and others - families were killed in their houses and their shelters. Be'eri lost about a tenth of its people.

About twelve hundred were killed in all, the large majority of them civilians, and two hundred and fifty-one people were taken into Gaza.

Among the dead were the volunteers and off-duty people who drove toward it without orders. Rachel Edri of Ofakim kept the men who held her and her husband talking for twenty hours, feeding them biscuits and coffee, until a rescue reached the house.

It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, and Israel stopped.

Everyone taken by October 7, 2023 →

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