In the battle at the Sderot police station, Chief Superintendent Avi Amar, 54, a senior officer in the Yoav police unit of the southern district, was among the first on the scene and helped the small force present there to keep the terrorists pinned down. Afterward, he was on his way to join a battle at the city’s entrance when word came of trouble in the Kfar Aza area. At Kfar Aza, he encountered terrorists and he managed to eliminate them, collect their weapons, and return to Sderot. From Sderot, he was sent to Kibbutz Be’ri in a convoy of armored vehicles. At the kibbutz entrance, the force managed to eliminate a terror squad but then the vehicles came under massive fire, including RPGs, and there Avi Amar was killed. Two hours earlier, in the Kfar Asar area, one of the soldiers was overcome by what he’d experienced and seen, and Chief Supt. Amar was photographed bending over to embrace the soldier in the middle of the pandemonium — a testimony to his ability to show tenderness toward those who needed it, even during the hardest battle. May he rest in peace.
