Emmanuel, son of Ada and David, was born on June 19, 1948 in Ein-Hanatziv and attended the elementary school in Nir Etzion and the high school in Kibbutz Yavneh. Later Emmanuel’s family moved to Sde Eliyahu and later to Nir Etzion. His home and educational institutions absorbed the ideas, education, atmosphere and values of religious-religious settlement. He was a student with fertile thinking and initiative and leadership skills. Emanuel was interested in agricultural machinery, agricultural work, mechanics, and various technical subjects with great talent. But two areas were of particular interest to him: general history and the history of underground movements and liberation. Emanuel was drafted into the IDF in mid-July 1967 and served in the Shaked reconnaissance unit and paratroopers unit, after completing a platoon commander’s course, an officers ‘course, and a platoon commanders’ course. He was a soldier and an outstanding officer. And during his army service he held a long line of command positions in combat units: he was a guide, a combat soldier, an operations officer, an officer in the Suez Canal and a company commander. He also specialized in parachute sabotage. In March 1970 he was wounded in a battle against terrorists in Safi, Jordan, and recovered from his wounds. Emanuel liked to express in writing his thoughts, opinions and plans for the future. He did so mainly in diaries, which he wrote in many notebooks, during his high school years and during his service in the army, and in dozens of letters he sent to the family, friends and friends. In a tent in the field, during a break between patrols in the patrol unit or in a ditch in the ditch, Emanuel wrote pages saturated with wonderful natural descriptions, thoughts and thoughts of a young man, whom nothing in the world was alien to him. He expressed opinions and thoughts on social and cultural matters, wrote about the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, the IDF and its soldiers, the doctrine of command and leadership, the relations between an officer and a soldier and a commander and his command. The commandant said that Emanuel was a talented officer with energy, initiative and brilliant thought, courageous and ambitious, a decent and acceptable commander of his comrades He was particularly sensitive to the families, who lost their sons, his comrades in arms, and was very attached to the agriculture Rabbi Emanuel was a great believer in the IDF and invested great effort and thought in the development of combat methods, training and training. He saw the IDF as a tool of war for the struggle for the continued existence of the Jewish people, as a guide and as a commander he was strict and tough, demanding a lot of himself and his soldiers, meticulous in carrying out the tasks perfectly, reacting severely to disciplinary offenses and negligence. In the Yom Kippur War, Emanuel was commander of a paratrooper company that fought against Egyptian commando soldiers who landed from helicopters and ships on the Red Sea coast near Abu Rudas, and by helicopter and foot, Emanuel and his soldiers went to chase the commando soldiers, Skipping from Wadi to Wadi, searching for the enemy and acting against it, before they raid our forces. On the 17th of Tishrei 5734 (October 13, 1973), Emanuel was killed and killed during a chase, when the Egyptians, who were persecuted by his unit, hid in a cave Emanuel took a soldier from a soldier, exposed himself to enemy fire, and fired at them as he tried to reach the cave until he was hit by fire.The enemy. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Nir Etzion. Survived by his parents, brother and two sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to captain. For his heroism and courage, Emanuel was awarded the “Medal of Honor”. The decoration sheet states that during the pursuit of Egyptian commandos in Sinai, Captain Emanuel took care of his men and did everything he could to prevent their injury, putting his life in mortal danger. His actions in battle served as a model for his soldiers, his courage, his coolness and his devotion to the mission.
