Amit began her journey at Magen David Adom in 2015 as a youth volunteer, following her father’s illness, to whom she was deeply devoted. Coping with his illness and being exposed to the medical world ignited in her a desire to help and care for others. After his passing, this desire became a driving force that shaped her life and choices.
Amit progressed and excelled at Magen David Adom, successfully completing an instructor’s course and training additional volunteers. Due to circumstances, she volunteered for national service instead of enlisting in the army, but Amit, true to herself, chose a meaningful path as a paramedic at Magen David Adom.
As part of her service, she successfully completed the paramedic course and became a team leader in an intensive care ambulance.
Just two months before her murder, she began instructing the regional paramedic course in the Negev, sharing the knowledge and experience she had accumulated. Throughout her years at Magen David Adom, she acted with professionalism, dedication, and a deep sense of mission. She dreamed of studying medicine and continuing on the path she had chosen for herself: caring for people and saving lives.
Amit was the youngest child, “spoiled” as her mother, Rachel, attests. She loved to sing and play. After completing her national service, she was hired by Magen David Adom, moved to Kibbutz Be’eri, and integrated into the kibbutz’s medical system.
On the morning of October 7th, with reports of casualties arriving, Amit did not hide. Instead, she reported to the dental clinic in the kibbutz, where she treated wounded individuals brought to her for hours under fire.
Even as the danger escalated, Amit remained by the side of the wounded and the staff, reporting to Magen David Adom’s dispatch center and occasionally communicating with her worried family members.
Throughout that time, the members of the standby squad protected the clinic staff and the wounded. However, at a certain point, the terrorists breached the clinic. Amit was shot in the leg. With incredible presence of mind, she applied a tourniquet above the wound, but to no avail.
Amit was murdered in cold blood while doing what she was most identified with: saving lives, with the blue latex gloves still on her hands.
After her murder, Amit was also commemorated through life-saving efforts. Her name was inscribed on an ambulance donated to Magen David Adom, and during memorial events in her honor, donations were also raised for the purchase of defibrillators.
Amit was laid to rest, draped in the Magen David Adom flag, in the Netivot cemetery, near her father David’s grave. She is survived by her mother and four sisters.
May her memory be a blessing.
