Baruch (Snir) Flum
Nov 18, 2000 - St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.
Golani St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, was killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated Kfar Darom and shot him at close range before being killed by soldiers. The Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack, which senior IDF officers said had been well planned, including assistance by intelligence reports.
The assailant, Baha Said, 30, from the Maghazi refugee camp, was a member of the PPSS headed by Mohammad Dahlan.
The attack occurred less than 24 hours after Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat called on Palestinians to refrain from perpetrating attacks from areas under Palestinian control. Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi was also killed in the attack.
Flum was one of the last soldiers to leave Lebanon in the dramatic pre-dawn withdrawal on May 24 where his Golani Brigade unit had been stationed. He was one of the soldiers filmed by television crews around the world as his armored personnel carrier rolled through the Fatma Gate from the demilitarized zone in southern Lebanon.
"When he got out of Lebanon he called me up and told me: 'Mama, I'm in the country,'" his mother, Etti, told reporters who had come to her home. "They showed him on TV with the soldiers who were among the last to leave. I was glad when he got out of Lebanon, but he was stationed in the territories since the riots started and I have been so anxious the whole time. He told me everything would be all right, but I was scared."
Flum was just four months shy of his release from IDF service when he was shot dead while guarding Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
Relatives and friends flocked to Flum's home in Tel Aviv to console his mother and six-year-old brother, Shai. Friends who gathered outside the apartment said Flum had begun planning a trip abroad. On Friday he had called his mother and told her not to worry, just hours before he was killed.
Flum's father was killed six years ago and he could have asked to serve in a non-combat unit. His mother donated her son's organs.