Amit Atias
During the ceremony, a video was dedicated to the memory of Haim Ben Aryeh, the legendary shuttle driver of Gush Katif, and to the memory of Abed al-Karim Nasasara, a shuttle driver from the Bedouin settlement of Kasifa. On Saturday they both received urgent requests to help evacuate civilians and rushed to help even though they were aware of the dangers. Abed was murdered in a terrorist ambush on Route 232. The sights that Haim saw broke his spirit and he ended his life at the end of October 2023