Avi Zidon
50 years old
Moshav Pri Gan
Avi Zidon, 50, was a senior police officer, husband and father who also coached children’s basketball. Colleagues and loved ones remembered him as calm, dedicated and heroic. He served as deputy head of the patrol unit at the Ofakim police station and lived in the southern community of Yevul.
Killed battling Hamas terrorists in Moshav Pri Gan on October 7