Son of Moshe and Rachel Eichenblatt. He was born on 15.11.1945 in Tel Aviv and studied at the Itamar elementary school in Netanya. He was a diligent and disciplined student, and he stood out among the boys in the military boarding school as a serious, quiet and strong-willed fellow to succeed in. Despite the difficulties he encountered in his studies he succeeded in all subjects, completed his studies at the military boarding school And was chosen as the second best trainee of the tenth graduating class.Oded as a youth in the Scouts youth movement, Oded was recruited to the IDF in August 1964 and volunteered to serve in the Armored Corps. After basic training and after completing an officers’ course, he was appointed commander of an operational platoon, which took part in shooting incidents with the Syrians in the north. He was sent to a training course in England and participated in a team that examined the English tank. A few days before the Six-Day War he was appointed commander of a platoon in an armored company that accompanied the Harel Brigade in the battle for Jerusalem. After the war, Oded, who was then a lieutenant, was appointed by then-Colonel Shmuel Gonen (Gorodish) as commander of a company in the 7th Brigade. In his new position, Oded took part in many operational activities in the north and in the Jordan Valley. In this capacity, he met Tzipi Ettinger, who was a clerk in the battalion, and later married the two. Among the commanders, Oded stood out for his humility, his integrity, his love for his friends, and the strong will to continue to bear the burden. “I can not imagine Oded without a uniform, and yet he remained inside it – despite the tough mask he created – the warm, gentle, honest and self-fulfilling boy,” Gurodish said of him in a special relationship with his subordinates. Later, Oded was appointed battalion commander in the 7th Brigade, and at the age of 24 he was appointed commander of the Armored Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, and at the end of the academic year he was appointed commander of the artillery division in the home. And his eldest daughter, Dalit, was born in the Yom Kippur War, where he fought as a battalion commander with the rank of sergeant commander and commanded a force of about 30 tanks, which was spread over dozens of kilometers, and his friend, Lt. Col. Barak, “From his reports on the radio, it turned out that he was in contact with huge tank forces with only a few tanks that survived, after most of the commanders fell in the first hours of the battle. Most difficult in the Golan Heights. ” On the second day of the war, Oded managed to rescue infantry soldiers who were in several positions and concentrated the force of the tanks in Tel Fares, where he prevented the Syrians from conquering the hill throughout the day. The two tanks were loaded with two machine guns, and at night he was rescued by a convoy of 12 tanks from the Euphrates, and on a dangerous road, where he encountered three Syrian ambushes, And he received the message on the radio in the tank, and four days later he was seriously injured and was beaten all over his body, During his circumcision ceremony at the hospital, Oded was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and after a long recovery he returned to his army unit and was forced to concentrate on the lessons of the brother-in-law’s war. He studied at Bar-Ilan University in the Faculty of Political Science, and spent a lot of time at home, providing a warm and pleasant atmosphere, and he loved to devote himself to his home, to his children and to the manual labor.He was a family man rather than a typical officer. A year later, Oded was asked by the commander of the Armored Corps to return to serve as the deputy commander of the armored brigade in the Sinai. He accepted the proposal enthusiastically and took up his post with renewed energy. On the 27th of Shvat 5736 (27.1.1976), Oded fell in Sinai while carrying out his duties. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya. He left behind a wife, daughter, son and mother. His mother established a scholarship fund in his memory, which awards each year an outstanding student award in the Political Science Department at Bar-Ilan University. A memorial monument was erected at the site where a fallen soldier was killed in Sinai.
