Shalom (Shuli) Har-Melech, son of Tzipporah and Moshe, was born on October 13, 1978, and raised in Kochav HaShahar in the Binyamin Region.
After high school, he served in the IDF as an emergency medical technician through the Hesder Yeshiva program. He married Limor on Lag B’Omer 2003, and the couple moved to Homesh in the Northern Shomron shortly afterward. They had a son and were expecting a daughter.
Deeply committed to Torah and community, Shuli founded the new yeshiva in Homesh and volunteered as a medic and ambulance driver with Hatzalah.
On Friday morning, August 29, 2003, while returning to Homesh after dropping off their son in Kochav HaShahar, the couple was ambushed by terrorists on the Alon Road. Shuli was killed instantly. Limor, seven months pregnant, was critically wounded and gave birth to their daughter several hours later.
He was laid to rest in the Kochav HaShahar Cemetery. In his memory, the Homesh yeshiva was renamed Yeshivat Har Shalom.
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