Son of Nava and Yehuda Ya’akov. He was born on the 19th of Heshvan 5710 (19.10.1980) in Jerusalem, a younger brother to Ronit and Meirav, named after his uncle Danny Teicheler, who fell in the Yom Kippur War, and studied at the Yehuda Halevy Elementary School in Jerusalem, In Efrat and in the religious kibbutz yeshiva of Ein Tzurim, in the framework of the Shiluv program, while he was a student at the high school yeshiva in Efrat, conceived, initiated and established a humorous radio station for the month of Adar, which is still active today, and is named after him. He was already a kindergarten teacher and was already a friend of someone who had no friends, to accept the differences The Bnei Akiva youth movement, in the center of Kahaneach, and later in the Baka branch as a guide, a loyal friend of all, a beloved and beloved pupil and guide for everything: Danny had a sensitive, supportive and full-hearted personality that radiated on everyone around him in his life cycle. And his sincere love for his family, especially his nephews, who loved him very much, and was filled with knowledge, love of the people and the homeland, creative ideas and talents that he expressed in his modest and special way. Always surrounded by close friends, whom he loved very much, he took advantage of every spare moment to keep in touch, to catch up and hang out with his friends. His hobbies were horseback riding, cycling, swimming, dipping in the springs, and rappelling (despite the fear of heights he could overcome), games of thought and logic. Danny enlisted in the IDF in the August 1999 Division, the Nahal Brigade, the Shaham Battalion 931. Even as a soldier he continued his special way, and already in basic training he brought the lone soldiers and the new immigrants closer. It was important for him to invite them home for Shabbat and holidays. In the book The End of the Company’s August 1999 track, Dani was written on a page of the early-class soldiers who left early: “The place is too narrow to contain your genius. Danny was promoted to command training and was sent to an early squad commanders’ course in August 2000, the book says, “Danny Cohen is legendary. The best class in the company thanks to one person – Danny Cohen. He received us when he was only 11 months in the army, and showed us years of experience … Half a year of laughter, one of the only commanders who really heard us soldiers. He always arranged arrangements for us, and he heard us cry and cry. He left us for an officer’s course, which he passed successfully and is now a platoon commander in August 01 !! Danny Cohen – Honor! “As a platoon commander, Danny writes to his department in the book End of August 2001:” Pinch, pinch in the Lev. ‘My Lev is in the east and I am at the end of the west.’ Never sounded as relevant as now, when I write you from here, over Rosh Hanikra. It’s not a secret that I wanted to stay, and it’s rather strange for me to write as the former platoon commander, but we will try … There are a few ways to sum up a period … I want to examine how we met the goals we set (it’s time to discover that there are other goals in the world besides protecting Israel’s northern border) The first goal we set up as a faculty was to teach early discipline so that we could work later in practice and practice and meet every mission in the most valuable and professional way. Schwarzkopf and finally, smiling a little smile at the corner of his mouth and winking, so I practiced not laughing, when the real test was in the conversations Smooth (how do you keep cats out?) Apart from discipline, the most memorable achievement from basic training is the incredible improvement in fitness, which has resulted in more than 30 points in Bar-Or! In practice, and later on the line, we tried to take the nonsense off as soon as possible and work without posing. We actually started with the fields that were excellent … We continued with the class and class exercises in the pouring rain (until the rain was the rain and the mud …) which we insisted on doing despite the conditions and caused a lot of satisfaction. The week of survival (APCs) in the lens, the crazy journeys of training (and the breathing of Davidson) will also be remembered, and of course, they conclude that they were also a pretty good challenge. From Arad, we moved northward to the line where we tried to work as well as possible, and to break a routine with strange madras, with a parrot ambush that became a Daughter of and a few animals that were only in Shushan and apparently extinct from the rest of the world. (Another scorpion the size of an elephant and a sheep the size of a mammoth.) Another goal that I thought was possible was to explain what and when possible, and to understand that sometimes it is impossible to explain everything Now, in retrospect, it turns out that you can not demand that a tiger be a vegetarian and always ask questions . “Why discipline? We know how to work in a good mind – a few soldiers in a department call after a day in basic training. Why was there only two hours of Shabbat? Why do we eat and not sleep in the sukkah? Why are there any adjustments? Why is the toolkit uncomfortable? Why are bees in the layout? ‘No more educational punishment?’ Ask anyone who received a Sabbath for breaking the guard on the line. Another objective was to leave a positive mark on the battalion, whether in the form of a good name for the platoon, or in the form of guys who would continue as commanders and fighters in the battalion. Elad, Yosi, Itai, Hoshaya, Eviatar, Rafi, Yoel, Amit, Ido, Igor, Yuri, Israel, Mones, Yossi (and maybe Gili, Shuli Shlomo or Avi) did the second part above expectations and led the battalion In the coming years. As for the first part, I am not objective. But, I feel great with what we’ve shown and everyone will judge alone. In the end, the department showed what it was worth, and maybe in a few places it could prove a bit more, but in retrospect, I’m sure everyone feels that he got something off the track and also contributed a bit and that’s what’s important … ‘. Of all my teachers I have learned and are the most soldiers. Thanks for the atmosphere I needed so much. Thank you for giving and sacrificing and grinding and laughing and encouraging and learning and learning and receiving and giving. Thank you for returning the good name of the soldiers to the battalion, and most of all, thank you for guarding the country. “Now that we have concluded a long and exhausting period, there is no doubt that you are the first of us to separate. Throughout our service period you have been the dominant figure in quantity and quality. In quantity – you survived with us the longest period (and it was not easy). And quality – you were a figure that influenced and determined many both throughout the training period in the hospital and in the line when you were concerned about constant activity at the outpost out of a desire not to be erased (from APC ranges, navigation runs in Yiftach etc.). There is no doubt that the head of the department is a straight cassette, and we have seen it in all areas: on the religious level, which has always been interested and concerned for every spiritual need, as in prayers on particularly busy days. In an honest and uncompromising manner that became a symbol of the entire company. On the personal level, with special concern for departures and efforts to take out the maximum number of soldiers home (especially when we were in the house) and special requests for events of various kinds. You believed that there was a real need for a distance during the training period, and even though we did not always agree with you, we knew that you did so out of the thought that this was a vital need, and indeed we felt that you wanted to be not only a commander but also a friend. In every problem we faced, we found a sympathetic ear that also dealt with the problem in the best possible way. There is no doubt that this attitude has permeated even the subordinate staff, who learned and took an example from you. Today we areKnow for sure that without you our service would have been more difficult and complex. Thank you heartily for everything, for your investment, and for your attention. Because you gave us everything you had to give. “MK Tal writes about Danny:” The man and the legend that I had the right to belong to the department he commands, I really enjoyed him and deserves a huge thank you from me. ” During his service, Danny experienced loss of friends and helplessness in the face of the terror attacks in Israel. He expressed his feelings, thoughts and deep thoughts in the songs that were found among the many work papers that were brought to the family after his fall. In March 2002, Danny Shir wrote about the contest: “He wanted to be Ehud / Then he fled from Lebanon to the great sea, but Ariel’s ownership of Ariel began to indicate that he could escape from a place, but not from disaster and bereavement. “And the people went round and wrong.” And the prophet said, “You shall live on your sword / You can not flee from Nineveh.” Some time later that month, after Danny’s attack, Danny wrote the following song: “Poor people in the market, rich in the mall, bus passengers, airplane passengers, young people dancing at the club, and adults sitting in a central bus station. , And the residents of the army bases, settlers, Peace Now protesters, Mea She’arim and Immanuel, a bachelorette party in Tel Aviv, and only Chazal predicted this and said: ‘All of Israel has a part in the World to Come.’ ” He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was appointed deputy commander in Company B in the “Shaham” Battalion 931 Nahal Brigade, which served at the Dvornit outpost on the northern border near Rosh Hanikra. On November 15, 2002, Danny was killed in a battle in Hebron, when he headed a company force to assist in the fighting against a terrorist squad that carried out a shooting attack on the Worshipers’ Way Who was killed in the battle of Kiryat Arba, Danny was killed during the battle, Danny was killed in the battle of 11 fighters, and Danny was killed at the age of twenty-two, and was buried at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. “D:” You can not tell about his death before telling about his life. Danny was a man who did me good in the battalion, who made me smile, was full of joy, an officer who really loved his soldiers and that’s why I did not succeed in getting him to be a company commander. , But this company commander is far away, I want to be close to my soldiers It was an extraordinary pleasure to see him work and enjoy and teach and educate, he was special and his death was like this. And he came to extract them, to separate them from the fire of the terrorists and while he was aiming the APC and trying to unload to reach the force in distress, he got a bullet and I saw him calling And we rescued him but no, there was nothing … I did not believe, a man who had so much life and suddenly had no life. “Danny loved life, planned and worked to continue the course of his life, was optimistic and full of joie de vivre, but he was aware that he might be hurt, among his writings were poems, notes and reflections on the attacks, the separation wall and the political situation in general In his album of photographs, after his death, a signed letter he left to his parents: “Father, mother, peace. Why, why do we live? Does one person have a purpose? The world exists for something that will yet come, which will yet happen, and each of us is a necessary part of the development of the world and humanity towards that transcendent thing. If so, what is required of everyone, and in fact the purpose of life, is to beSlide the puzzle as best it can. In other words, those who follow the path of a religious Jew must maintain the Jewish religion in the most effective way, in order to make generations that come better than him by influencing his descendants or his surroundings. I must have belonged to a part that had to be influenced by his surroundings, and you had a part that affected his children. So I just wanted to tell you that I’m quite Simcha with what I did in the limited time allotted to me, and that I feel I was a pretty good shofar for the way you educated me and that I can not think of a better way to raise a child than you raised me. In my meager experience, I have seen that people who are hopelessly broken by bereavement are people who have some guilt. As I know you (especially mother), although there is no reason, you may regret what you did or did not do, that you said or did not say. In the book, the end of the August 2002 route, it was written: “Danny symbolized the Yaffa Israeli: Danny, who was a commander who loved and cared for his soldiers more than he cared for himself, Danny, who always had to, volunteered first to help. Danny, who always knew how to throw in a joke when needed. Danny loved the country and the country. Danny was a human being. “In memory of Danny, a Torah scroll was brought to the Chazon Yehezkel synagogue in Jerusalem, Torah lessons are given to commemorate it, a seminar was held at the Ein Tzurim Yeshiva on the subject of the binding of Isaac. A charity was founded in the name of Danny, whose goal is to raise resources to encourage young people to fulfill their personal needs, and to establish a website for Danny’s memory at www.danny-cohen.com
