Ben-Yishai, Shahar

Ben Hanna and David. He was born on October 30, 1978, in Menahemia in the Jordan Valley. Brother to Limor, Hagar and Natalie. Shahar studied at the elementary school in Menahemia, and continued to the “Hebrew Rally” school in Haifa as a trainee at the military boarding school for command. He was a modest, quiet man, loving to help, surrounded by friends who loved him. He was very attached to his family, and developed close relations with his sisters. On 15 October 1996, after completing his studies at the military boarding school, Shahar enlisted in the IDF, where he completed a long and arduous course, graduating with honors. His family says that it was clear to him that after the service he would sign, “Just ask him to stay, everyone loved him so much.” In August 2001, Shachar reached the 101st Battalion (the Patan Battalion) and took command of the Ram Company. “In the short period since he took office, Shahar made a revolution in terms of professional norms, seriousness, the manner in which the activity was carried out Placemat and concern fighters. Shahar served as a role model for the commanders of the other companies and commanders in the battalion. “And the number of deputy company commander, Omer Cohen:” Even when we came back from activity in the wee hours of the night, Shahar would wake up soldiers and talk to them about their problems. ” Shahar’s service in the midst of the “tidal wave” was fraught with dangers, and daily work was hard and hard. He participated in brigade operations in Judea and Samaria, including Operation Defensive Shield in the spring of 2002, a campaign to eradicate the terrorist infrastructure in the territories. Thanks to the company’s indefatigable activity, many terrorist attacks were thwarted. Shahar’s vacations were rare and he only visited the parents’ home once a month. He tried to update his family about his whereabouts as far as possible, but when his family expressed their concern and asked him to leave the dangerous places, he said that the fighters had to carry out the work, otherwise terrorism would prevail. In the week preceding his death, the company helped execute an operation in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus and killed an armed terrorist, and participated in a joint operation with the Shayetet 13, during which a senior wanted man was captured. Shahar had a future ahead of him. He was considered one of the most admired commanders in the Paratroopers Brigade, and his commanders watched him. Shahar was appointed commander of the 35th Brigade, and later returned to the Patan Battalion. In October 2003 he was appointed commander of the auxiliary company. In the fall he was supposed to go to law school at Tel Aviv University, but all his plans were cut off. On the 29th of May 2004, Shahar fell in battle in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, during a paratroopers’ operation to locate wanted persons, and the company, commanded by the 101st Battalion, took control of a house in the refugee camp to comb it for a planned operation. At the end of the operation, Shahar was the first to leave the house, and he turned towards one of the armored jeeps waiting for the soldiers, and then a fire was opened at him, and a Palestinian armed with a rifle emerged from one of the alleyways and fired three bullets at him from a distance of fifty meters. Who was dressed, between the two ceramic parts, was wounded critically, and although he was evacuated quickly to the hospital, resuscitation efforts increased Oh. Commander said: “The operation under the command of dawn in the morning, was characterized in terms of pushing forward with the initiative and striving for contact. The desire to carry out another operation and another action that would disrupt the terrorist activity in Nablus. Shahar served as a role model for the commanders of the other companies and commanders in the battalion. “Shahar, who was twenty-six years old, was laid to rest in Tiberias’ military cemetery, leaving parents and three sisters.His downfall was elevated to the rank of major. In a letter of consolation to the family, the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Bar, said: “Shahar commanded his soldiers all the way proudly, aspiring forward, and constantly striving for contact and victory at every meeting … He was a dominant, professional and charismatic commander He wanted to carry out operational activities with the company, while promoting and developing the company’s soldiers and commanders, and we remember him especially for his kindness and his intense concern for his soldiers. In the course of his performance, Shahar realized the sentence that represented the spirit of the parachutists and Gad D adder, family combative, initiative and winning – a sentence that matches the character of Dawn – combative, initiator and conductor. I am proud that I was his commander, he will be missed by us. ” Later, the paratroopers captured the terrorist who killed Shahar. Shahar’s uncle, Shmuel Azogi, said with pain: “Shahar was a guy who did not see walls, he passed through them, he had no checkpoint, he always gave a personal example and was an exemplary officer. When he got home, he took food and sweets for his soldiers. ” Shachar’s sister, Hagar, said: “He was a charming person who loved to help, a thoughtful brother who takes care of everyone, mother and father. After Shahar fell, his mother participated in a delegation of “witnesses in uniform” who visited the death camps in Poland. “I was privileged to join this audience of soldiers and soldiers from the best sons and daughters of the State of Israel, who came to unite with the holy memory of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and throughout Europe, and to pay tribute to those who perished and survivors of the Holocaust. Shachar went on this journey during a training course, and he also walked along the paths of the killing valley, from conversations I had at dawn after his return from this journey, to the profound shock his soul underwent during his visit to this land. , But his face betrayed what was happening in his soul.Shachar argued that this journey strengthens our very existence in the State of Israel and the necessity of reality in maintaining the A year before his death, Shachar wondered whether to continue in the military framework or to embark on civilian life.It is an open secret that the military framework is not easy, and sometimes erodes the person, but this journey imprinted the need to preserve And in defending the lives of the people living in our homeland, it is possible that if he had not embarked on this journey, Benny Shachar would have been alive, but I know that if Shahar had the time to turn the clock back, he would not have hesitated, even for a moment in his decision. Shahar’s family received emotional letters expressing their appreciation for him and the pain of his loss. “I have the right to say that at least nine months of my life I was Shahar’s best friend and he was my best friend,” Shahar’s deputy, Barak Gabor, wrote: “I have the right to say that at least nine months of my life I was the best friend of Shahar, I began to meet him in the heart of the desert on a sunny day, so we started our way through the warm Hamam and went on for a long time in Hebron, close to one of the small and dank rooms, our tiny and cramped room, our conversations, Over the other, in our two-story bed, we occasionally sit at two in the morning and smoke some cigar after some arrest or some dayAnd then he would say, ‘How much do I now get my mother’s food? You must come to my house to taste my mother’s food …’. How he managed his young life as a solitary wolf striving for perfection and excellence even in the most stressful moments. “I have not known Shahar for so long, only four months, but in this short time we spent hours together in the CP for hours on end. And because of his strong and impressive figure that always accompanied him and seemed as if nothing could break his coolness … I was with him at any given moment from the beginning of the event until its end Bitter, and kept ringing in my ears what he would say to me, and the most obvious of all: ‘In such moments it is important to be strong, to raise your head and move on.’ “His friend, a company commander in the battalion, wrote:” … you are not just chosen to take command of the auxiliary company. As one who comes out of the company and looks back, the changes that took place in the company in your time did not take long before you, and all because of your character, the power you conveyed, the determination, the desire to succeed in everything and to be the first. … The last time we were both from the battalion in the battalion made us find ourselves in hours, not days, and in times when we were talking about the company, the battalion, the family, and sometimes the studies and the future. , The nerves and all the other things … Your memory is forever engraved in me, and will always remain a dawn, a company commander who helps. “Ron Katri, the principal of the Hebrew Hareli School, wrote:” Shahar’s family, the one and only, While he did what he knew best and was trained to do – lead people in battle! And we will remember Shachar along with two hundred and eighty-four members of the Hebrew Rally School in Haifa. “The memorial organization,” Kanfei Hashachar “, was established every year in commemoration of Shahar. On the paths that Shachar walked, around the colony from Nehemiah to the observatory that overlooks the Jordan landscape, the Tnuva Tel Yosef Dairy sponsors the march In 2006, the marchers met the soldiers of the 101st Battalion, who deployed an advanced weapons display And camouflage equipment. On July 25, 2005, the military boarding school for the command of the Hebrew Ralli School in Haifa held a quiz of the knowledge of the country in memory of Shachar. The subjects of the quiz were taken from subjects with knowledge of the land and the heritage of battle. On February 12, 2007, 101 soldiers from the Paratroopers base in the Golan Heights ran to the head of the Bental volcano. After that, a ceremony was held for the inauguration of a club named after Lieutenant Yiftah Shreier, a battalion officer who fell during the Second Lebanon War and after Major Shahar Ben-Yishai. In the club, a memorial corner for Yiftach and Shahar, a computer and a large television – all for the benefit of the soldiers of the battalion. In memory of Shachar was donated a fancy parochet at the entrance to the Yitzhak Hall in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Shachar’s family wrote a fancy Torah scroll in memory of the synagogue. The Paratroopers’ Association commemorated Shahar on its website at http://www.gal-ed.co.il/zanchanim-palsar.