Eldad Bergman, 26: Hard worker had just moved into first apartment
Murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7
Eldad (Angel) Bergman, 26, from Merkaz Shapira, was murdered by Hamas terrorists while trying to flee the Supernova music festival on October 7.
Eldad attended the rave with four childhood friends – Aviel Rahamim, Avidan Torgeman, Ido Ben Zino and his cousin, Oded Abergel, all of whom were also murdered that day.
With the start of the rocket fire, the friends split up as they tried to flee the festival, and Eldad ultimately ended up in a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Be’eri, where he and another friend, Linor Keinan, were slain when Hamas terrorists threw grenades inside and opened fire on those gathered there.
He was buried in Masuot Yitzhak on October 10. He is survived by his parents, Tamar and Amir and his siblings Tali, Hadar, Ayala and Yohai.
Eldad worked at the power station in Ashkelon and was slated to soon begin university studies, according to a municipal eulogy. He spent five months touring South America a year before he was killed.
Just a few months before they were slain, he and Oded had moved in together in the small town of Timorim near Kiryat Malachi, his first apartment outside the family home.
Loved ones described him as unassuming and modest, with a bashful, contagious smile and a devotion to his parents, especially his mother. He was a fan of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team and was active in his local Bnei Akiva youth group.
In a memorial podcast, his younger brother, Yohai, described Eldad as quiet and modest: “He didn’t seek to stand out, he’d find a spot on the side and be with himself.”
Eldad, he said, “gave off only a taste of what was going on inside.” As he began to find himself in work and with his new apartment, Yohai said his brother was “a lot more calm, a lot more peaceful.”
His sister, Tali, said in the few months before he was killed, Eldad “started to build himself from scratch… he started to invest in himself.”
Eldad, she said, “worked very hard on his character,” and was very dedicated in particular to respecting his parents.
“To my mom especially, he always took care of her, if that meant on Friday night pouring her drink, not eating until she started eating, or not even sit down until she had — all these little things,” Tali added.
“Eldad was very active, very practical, there wasn’t a day he didn’t go out to work — I can’t remember him sitting at home since he was in high school.”
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