262:. Gidi studied there for two years and that was his first encounter with the HaShomer HaTzair movement, and the Kibbutz Artzi. During Junior High School he attended a worker's children school (Beit Hinuch L’ ieladei ovdim) in Tel Aviv. After finishing he signed up in Tichon Hadash, there he became the first student enrolled in the school. During his teen years, he joined a branch of the HaShomer HaTzair in Tel Aviv. Together with his classmates he became part of a group known as Gdud HaSade whose mission was to join kibbutz Beit Alfa. While a junior in High School, he interrupted his studies for one year, to be the organizer of all senior students throughout Israel who joined the defense forces then being set up.
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Through the years he filled different functions in his kibbutz. He was twice
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Northern Sector in this body, with the rank of “Nitzav Mishneh” (Chief Superintendent). Afterwards he moved to the
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and later as head of section. During the years 1966-1970 he returned to his second tour of duty for the movement of the
Kibbutz Artzi in the Personnel Department. During the first stage of his service he was director of the seminars offered by the movement in
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dynastic tradition. She was in her profession a medical Doctor. His father Kurt (Tobi) was a Doctor of
Jurisprudence. During his childhood, Gidi studied at the public school in the city of Königsberg. He became a member of the
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January to become a teacher in a Platoon Commanders Course, which was the last of the Haganah and a first for the
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area. In conjunction with all the other IDF forces in the area, it brought the liberation of the northern Negev and the capture of over twenty towns and villages, including
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