An excellent swimmer, she met the criteria of an outstanding athlete, but preferred significant military service and enlisted in a pilot's course. After withdrawing from the course, she volunteered for the elite unit 'Rider of the Sky'. She served as a fighter and then as an officer. On Shabbat Simchat Torah, the soldiers in the soldiers' quarters at the Nahal Oz base woke up around 7 a.m. to the sounds of commotion on the outpost. The female soldiers on base serving as observers were neither combatants nor armed. Eden and her four female soldiers leapt into action with their personal weapons. Within a short time, the battle began inside the outpost, near the safe room where the soldiers were huddled. Inside the safe room, Eden made eye contact with her soldiers and then loaded her weapon. The soldiers did the same, in a move that in retrospect changed the outcome of the battle. The safe room had two openings. Eden, who naturally appointed herself the commander of the battle to protect the safe room, took the left opening and ordered her soldiers to take the right one. The first terrorist tried to enter through the right opening. Eden's soldiers shot and killed him. It was clear that now the terrorists would try to enter through the left opening, which would create an escape opportunity through the vacant right opening. Eden waited for the terrorists by the left opening to delay them and buy the remaining soldiers time to retreat through the right opening. A group of terrorists charged with gunfire and grenades at the opening that was secured by Eden, but were met with fire from her weapon. These were the golden seconds, when under the cover of the smoke and Eden’s fighting, the soldiers retreated to their quarters, where they fortified themselves until they were rescued by paratroopers and Maglan. Eden fell in battle saving ten IDF soldiers, six observers and four of her soldiers whom she loved so much.