Agam Naim

From Kibbutz Mishmarot.

Agami had an enormous heart and always spread light and love – as the youngest child at home, as a youth village resident, as a counselor in Hashomer Hatzair, as a meaningful gap-year volunteer at the Adanim youth village, and of course as a paramedic – she was surrounded everywhere by people who could not help but fall in love with her.

She completed the paramedics course with honors. Her friends say that beyond her academic excellence, she was the most social and significant presence in the group. That was who she was throughout her life – able to balance outstanding achievement in every field with being the best possible daughter, sister, and friend to the many people close to her.

Agam was a people-person. Everywhere in the country she had a best friend – from home, from her service year commune, and from the army.

She strove for excellence, and her motto was: “If it’s possible in the world – it’s possible for me.” With great modesty she finished high school with an extraordinary grade average, and alongside majors in biology and computer science, she also completed a final research project in social sciences.

Agam was meant to begin serving as a commander in the prestigious paramedics course and to conclude with honor her meaningful, life-saving service in Gaza.

Our beloved Agami fell on September 17, 2024 – 14 Elul 5784 – a paramedic and fighter in the Armored Corps, Brigade 401, Battalion 52. She asked to enter Gaza one last time, just to say goodbye to her friends there. True to herself, she was the first soldier to fall during the ground maneuver in Gaza – she always had to be first.

In her life Agami gave each person the feeling they were her whole world. Now a vast emptiness remains, hearts are broken, and life has been overturned.

She was 20 when she fell, only four days before her 21st birthday.

She is survived by her heartbroken parents, Dudi (Yoram) and Dorit, her older sisters Yuval and Peleg, and countless closest friends.

May her memory be a blessing.