"Everyone called you a spiritual father": Ilan Gilon is brought to rest
Many family, friends, and politicians came to accompany Ilan Gilon on his final journey.
"You always said you had to go first," his wife praised him.
"He loved humanity, and people gave him love back," Nitzan Horowitz said in his memory
Karin Sagi
03/05/2022
Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 11:07 Updated: 13:03
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Former MK Ilan Gilon was laid to rest today (Tuesday). Gilon, a native of Romania, has been a senior Meretz party member for the past two decades and previously served as deputy mayor of Ashdod. He was first elected to the 15th Knesset in 1999, "We knew fire
,
we knew the thunder of 50-year-old love," his Jewish wife praised him
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Always you have to go first, and I roll my eyes and see all all loved ones, we have developed together complete opposites.
I'm angry, even now, I want to quarrel with you that you neglected your health for the common good.
You wanted to save me from your health collapse. "
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"Even now I want to quarrel with you that you neglected your health for the common good," Yehudit Gilon (Photo: Walla !, Karin Sagi)
Omri, Ilan's son, also said things in his memory.
"Get ready for this moment and say we'll not sing a Barbara Streisand song, I want us to talk. I'm thrilled in recent days with the love for you on the network, it fills me to know that. "For us and so much father to whoever wanted. It is a privilege and honor to be your son."
"What I can capture are our little moments, going out to sea, traveling for walks, sitting on the couch eating ice cream out of the box," Omri said, continuing to recite in his memory to his father the song Play Me Blind by poet Nathan Jonathan.
Finally the son warmed the obituary and said that "we are proud of you and happy that you have been a part of our lives. Love you Dad.
"This whole experience is surreal," said Gilon's house, "we went through a crazy roller coaster. It's a surprising ending. This ending is really an end. It hurts all over my body. I have a hard time breathing. I have a hard time thinking about a world without you. I tried to prepare for it "Close to ready. The hole in a huge heart. I always knew you were loved, there is no place they did not cry for you, everyone is talking about you. I won Dad with the powers of a superhero."
The funeral of Ilan Gilon (Photo: Walla !, Karin Sagi)
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz paid tribute and said that "political life is difficult and it comes at a difficult price. Ilan knew how to put love and warmth into it all. Beyond the ideology it set him apart. He would get everyone a smile and love. He would open his hands and invite a hug. You never felt "It's fake. He laughed at the left that loves humanity and hates people. He loved humanity, loved the people, and they gave him love back."
"He would laugh a lot at people who like to frown - me too," Horowitz added, "he would be a generous man. Maybe too much. Tried to fix on his own all the cases that would come to him. Dear socialist, my dear brother, you went young. What is 65? ".
"For me he was a compass," Transport Minister Meirav Michaeli said in his memory. "He was sharp and an ideologue without for a moment being dogmatic. So there was a roar.There are people who come into politics for power.
He gives everything to other and different people. "
"He was love, all the time everywhere," Meirav Michaeli in memory of Gilon (Photo: Walla !, Karin Sagi)
Meretz Secretary General Tomer Reznik said that "Ilan would always tell me 'I'm not Shimon Peres, I will not forget to die', it seems that you remember to die too fast.
In many conversations over the years, I would tell you that no less than being a politician, you would have educated not by chance the establishment of a young generation that follows you.
" Better and combine better. He saw us as equals. Yuval added that he would especially miss hugging Ilan, "We had a strange hug, I'm in a wheelchair and he's in the cinema."
"You were a father enough for us and so much a father for those who wanted to," Ilan Gilon (Photo: Dror Einav)
Gilon began his political career in the Ashdod City Council in 1993, when he was elected deputy mayor and holder of the municipal education portfolio - a position he held until 1999, when he was elected to the Knesset from eighth place on the Meretz list for the fifteenth Knesset.
Although he served most of the years in the opposition, he knew how to cooperate with the coalition, was loved by Knesset members from all parties, and managed to pass more than 15 laws and amendments to the law, including an amendment to the Social Security Law improving the rights of the disabled. Left by the diners.
In Meretz's primaries to put together its list for the 19th Knesset elections, Gilon won first place, and therefore, was placed in second place, after the party's chairman. Following a recent stroke.
In March 2019 he had another stroke.
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