Dor, Hanoch

Hanoch, son of Tzipora and Moshe Dorelber, was born on the 5th of Tishrei 5708 (5.10.1947) in Sde Eliyahu, in the Beit She’an Valley. He studied at the religious elementary school where he lived, and later completed his professional high school, where he absorbed the love of Torah and the love of labor – the two ideals he was destined to follow in his short life, and his companions testified that he had courage, He was enthusiastic about walking and touring, and on the walks he ran ahead of his friends, carrying a heavy backpack on his back, although he did not like the long meeting on the school floor. He devoted his time to social activities in the Bnei Akiva youth movement And in May 1965 he volunteered for the Nahal Brigade and was sent to a course for infantry officers and was sent to a course for infantry officers, and at the outbreak of the Six-Day War Hanoch was a cadet and for a long time did not forgive About a year after the war, while serving as deputy commander of a Nahal outpost in Mehola in the Jordan Valley, he was wounded in the leg when he was on a mine during a patrol. His “medical profile” was lowered, but he made great efforts to return to the excellent form he had. His efforts bore fruit and after a few months he returned to running and playing basketball. In 1968, after completing his army service, Hanoch went to a physical education course, but the group’s institutions demanded that he leave for a year of training. Hanoch refused to do so, and with a heavy Lev left Elijah and began studying at the Wingate Teachers’ College for Physical Education. The studies were difficult, and in the first year he served in the reserves for over a hundred days. In order to finance his studies he worked during the summer vacation paving roads in Sinai. At the time he volunteered in a course for tour officers, and when they finished he was posted to a patrol unit in the Armored Corps. At Wingate, he met his girlfriend, who was to become his wife, Eilat. Together we planned plans for the future and in the last academic year we married. Hanoch Hora physical education and among his other activities trained basketball team. Afterward, the young couple moved to Kiryat Gat and Hanoch taught at the local religious high school. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Hanoch felt his unit and took part in the battles of containment and break-up in the Golan Heights. On the 18th of Tishrei 5734 (18.10.1973), his 26th birthday, he was hit and killed by an anti-tank missile on his armored vehicle, near Tel-Mahara, and Hanoch was laid to rest in the cemetery in the field Eliahu left behind a wife, a father, a mother, two brothers, and a sister in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Hanoch went through the first days of the war with his head high … He was our living spirit in the unit.” The fact that he “infected” the entire unit with his love for sport, and that other commanders defined him as “a courageous soldier and an exemplary commander, cheerful, proud and willing to cooperate.” His parents and relatives, with the help of the Department for the Commemoration of the Soldier, The memory inserted the Holy Ark of the synagogue Sde Eliyahu; Memory published the booklet “How the mighty have fallen” issued by the Regional Council of the Jordan Valley and in “memory”, published by the local council of Kiryat Gat.