Ben Damco and Tarpa. He was born on the 1st of Shevat 5744 (5.1.1984) in the village of Ata, Ethiopia, to Avi, Gabi, Israela and Yehuda, and grew up in a village in Ethiopia, where the extended family made a living from agriculture. On July 29, he enlisted in the IDF in 2004 and served as an infantry fighter in the 890th Bezeq Battalion, “He always dreamed of military service,” said his good friend from childhood, Danny Eileen, about Malko’s dream of following in the footsteps of his older brother, Avi, who served in the paratroopers: “He was so proud of him and wanted to be like him. I saidLou: ‘Forget about you, you’ll be a jubnik.’ But he was proud to be in the paratroopers and said to me: ‘You’ll see, when I’m free everyone will look at me differently.’ “After a few months of service, Malko decided to aim high, And his perception of the overall picture. Malko returned to the brigade and commanded a mixed squad of secular soldiers and yeshiva students. In the task of formulating his team for teamwork, Malko’s greatness and ability to bridge between different people and bring hearts together stood out. His soldiers testified that he knew how to speak to them at eye level. In June 2006, following the abduction of Gilad Shalit, the unit was called for operations in Gaza, but in July 2006, the 890th Battalion was flown to Lebanon. In his last short conversation with his friend Danny Eileen, three weeks before his death, Malko told him: “You do not know what’s going on here, it’s a different world.” “Malko was not afraid,” said Sergeant Roy Takke of his friend’s courage. Roi, also a paratrooper fighter, who studied with Malko in Kfar Batya, testified: “He told me: ‘I’m going to do the job.'” After days of fighting on the northern front, the battalion left for a short respite. Malko met the head of the pre-military academy attended by Eyal Eldar and expressed his concern about the continuation of the process of integration that he began with his soldiers. He wondered how he would continue to educate them to be responsible for each other when they had to take part in the war. Eyal Eldar said that his acquaintance with Malko saw him as a positive and determined person. Then the battalion returned to fight in Bint Jbeil. On the last Friday of his life, Malko managed to call his parents to reassure them that he was okay. His family had not seen him for three weeks. Throughout the night of Monday, August 7, 2006, the 8th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade searched the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, in the western sector of southern Lebanon. Malco’s company was operating in the southern part of the town, in the village of a-Thiri, and his department was assigned to scan four houses that were adjacent to each other. Due to the lack of equipment, all the soldiers did not go out for combat with ceramic vests. Only the Spear squad received such vests, assuming they were the first to meet enemy fire. The soldiers combed the house with house-to-house fire. The first one was empty of people. Toward the entrance to the second house, one of the soldiers at the checkpoint discovered that he had a weapon. Malko heard the call “stop, stop,” left his squad, advanced to the point squad, and replaced the soldier with the weapon. When the force reached the fourth house, the last one, it was almost dawn for a new day of fighting, and the battalion commander ordered his soldiers to perform the scan “dry” without firing, but only with a glance. The platoon commander asked volunteers to comb the house. Malco, who had night-vision equipment in his hands, volunteered to continue the scan with the Spear Squad, even though it was not his link. Six soldiers entered the house and the other soldiers surrounded him from the outside. The soldiers entered the house, with Malko headed to the left and the deputy commander, Anton Siomin, on the right. In the house there was a long hallway from which many rooms emerged. Each of the soldiers went into one of the rooms, and they searched one room after another. They were all empty. When they reached the end of the hall, they discovered another room with an inner room. Malik came in to check the inner room, but suddenly they opened fire with terrorists lying there in an ambush. Malko, the platoon commander, and two other soldiers were caught in a fierce exchange of fire. Malko was hit and killed. His friends rescued themselves, but after a quick check, they discovered that he was missing, that is, still inside. At the order of the battalion commander, who determined that they had to do everything in order to rescue him from there, alive or dead, the soldiers entered the house, firing, two of them standing on either side of the last door in the corridor andThey fired heavy fire into the room. Under the cover of the shooting, and in a smoke screen, the platoon commander crawled in, dragged Malko out, and during the rescue under fire he was also hurt. The Hezbollah terrorists who attempted to flee from the other side of the house were identified by another company from the battalion and liquidated. The commanders did not immediately tell the fighters about Malko’s death, but only in the afternoon, so as not to weaken the spirit of the fighters in the midst of the fighting. Representatives of the city’s officer knocked on the door of the Ambow house in Lod with the bitter news, while his older brother, Avi, received the news when he was on his way to the north after being called up for reserve duty in the Paratroopers Brigade. Malko (Moshe) Ambau fell in a battle in southern Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War, on 13 August 2006. He was twenty-one when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military section of the Lod cemetery. Malko left behind his parents, three brothers and a sister. After his death, he was promoted to First Sergeant.
