Ben Carlin and Asher. Born in Rehovot on 7 November 1986. When he was two and a half years old, he moved with his family to the Maccabim settlement, where he was a typical sandwich boy and loved to play with Eitan, , His younger sister, who received a lot of love from those around him, and returned warmth and joy to all of them: Yaniv studied at the Maoz Maccabim Elementary School and continued to the junior high school in the nearby town of Re’ut, graduating from high school in biology and economics. He was a quiet and comfortable student who invested in what he liked to study and neglected a few other occupations His mother and his mother were from Canada and his father was from South Africa, and his mother and grandfather lived in Montreal, Canada, and each summer Yaniv went with his family to visit them.In these vacations Yaniv participated in many summer camps – he learned to swim, Ice and football The family traveled extensively throughout North America, including visiting the West Coast, Disney World, the East Coast and Niagara Falls, and on his last trip to Canada before joining the army, Yaniv traveled with his family to Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. It was a unique trip, in which the family took part in challenging and exciting activities like sailing in the lakes, watching whales in the middle of the sea and spectacular walks in the countryside. One of Yaniv’s most prominent characteristics was his vast and extensive knowledge. Yaniv was interested in a variety of topics – history, geography, science – and especially aviation. When he was young, and perhaps because of his many trips abroad, he fell in love with civilian airplanes, and usually saw the “real thing” around the airport and on the flight itself, which was more interesting and interesting than the trip itself. , Was a member of an aviation magazine, took pictures of airplanes and surfed for hours on civilian Internet sites, and on Fridays he used to travel with his friends to Ben Gurion Airport and watch airplanes take off and land, and he had a frequency scanner that allowed him to listen to the communications between the pilots and the control tower. And understood all the codes used by the pilots and inspectors, and each time he would surprise Hab He taught himself how to fly and navigate airplanes, how to plan a flight route, and any other subject that ensured a comfortable and safe flight, and when the joystick was in hand, He would sit in front of the computer and fly the planes, usually Boeing planes, from anywhere and anywhere in the world, and he would talk to the control tower, execute his instructions and land on the right track as if it were a real flight. The planes that took off and landed at the airport where he played. Yaniv was very patient and made sure to learn and understand the theory behind flight and flight supervision itself. Diligence and thoroughness until complete understanding were among his most prominent characteristics. In addition to soccer and basketball, Yaniv participated for several years in karate and tennis. From an early age he was a burnt fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv and did not abandon it even in the less good seasons. His request for a Bar Mitzvah was to watch a soccer game from the English League, and a few months after the Bar Mitzvah the family traveled to England, where Yaniv watched with his brother and father in a game between the Express and Aston Villa. During his high school years, Yaniv will maintain the website of Maccabi Maccabim basketball team. The knowledge about site maintenance purchased from the authorsAnd soon he took over. As usual, he took his mission seriously – he took pictures of games, interviewed coaches and actors, wrote articles and kept an up-to-date, well-designed and easy-to-use site. At one point, when he noticed that almost no fans were coming to the games, he asked to establish a fan club for the team, and was answered in the affirmative. Yaniv became the number one fan of “Maccabi Maccabim” while making sure to bring as many fans as possible, and with drums, flags and flashes they would shake the room. More than once the team players said that thanks to the unceasing sympathy they were motivated and won the game. Yaniv did not miss games and won a special trophy in recognition of his great contribution to the team. In September 2006, about three months after his fall, a basketball tournament was held in Yaniv’s name. At the ceremony of awarding the trophy to the winning team, a change was made to the name “Maccabi Yaniv”. Prior to joining the IDF, Yaniv wanted to serve as a flight controller in one of the IAF bases, but his request was not answered and he chose to serve in the Armored Corps, where he enlisted in December 2004, underwent basic training and joined the 82nd Battalion of the 7th Brigade. Yaniv fell in love with the brigade and glorious history He was very proud to be a sergeant, and as usual he was interested in and learned the history of the brigade and of the entire Armored Corps, and when Yaniv joined the battalion he was assigned to one of the crews of Company A, which at the time defended the settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Yaniv’s tank was one of the last to leave the Gaza Strip during the disengagement process in August 2005. After this activity and after a brief activity on the Nahal Golan line, in February 2006 he moved with his battalion to a blue line on the Lebanese border. In this line, Yaniv and his crew moved to the tank days and nights on alert against possible Hezbollah activity. On July 12, 2006, Yaniv fell in battle during the Second Lebanon War. On the morning of the same day, Hezbollah launched a large-scale attack along the Lebanese border and kidnapped two reservists – Sergeant Ehud Goldwasser and First Sergeant Eldad Regev. The outpost where Yaniv and his crew were located was heavily bombarded. When the kidnapping was reported, and when they were at the nearest post to the scene, the crew received orders to enter Lebanon and stop the terrorists’ escape vehicle. The crew found it hard to reach the tank due to the heavy noise, but with tremendous effort and insistence, the crew arrived at the tank, and together with “Negamon” began to drive towards Lebanon. The crew managed to shoot and hit a number of Hezbollah positions at the entrance to Lebanon, but a short distance from the border near Hezbollah’s “flagship dome” outpost, the tank mounted a large ground bomb that destroyed the tank and killed the four crew members. Yaniv fell with First Sergeant Shlomi Yirmiyahu, First Sergeant Gadi Musayev and First Sergeant Alex Kushnirski. Yaniv was nineteen and a half when he fell. His funeral took place on July 16, 2006, and he became the first soldier to be buried in the military section of the Modi’in cemetery. Survived by parents, brother and sister.
