Etgar, Meron

Meron, son of Tehila and Ze’ev, was born on August 21, 1951. On August 30, 1951, the editor-in-chief of Yedioth Ahronoth wrote in his daily column: “Only Sprinzak is missing here to open the Knesset meeting This was stated yesterday at Ramat-Mera Hospital in Ramat Gan, at a ceremony held there with the introduction of the covenant of Avraham Avinu of the newborn son Meron, the son of the military writer Zeev Eltgar. The newborn was named after the high mountain in our country and his grandfather, who was a member of the Presidium of the Farmers’ Union. At the tables were Knesset members from four rival parties, the mayors of Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Petach Tikvah, the heads of state public and military institutions and a large number of journalists. “On January 11, 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin wrote to the bereaved parents:” I asked the military secretaries General Poran to check through our delegation, which is now in Cairo, the possibility of receiving the help of the Egyptian authorities in an effort to locate the bones of your son , The dear Saint Miron, who has not yet come to the tomb of Israel. “On May 4, 1978, Minister of Defense Ezer Weizman wrote to Tehila and Ze’ev Altagar:” Believe me, I would have done what was possible and possible to know and reveal to you where Captain Meron Eltgar is located? What happened to him? And how did this happen to him? We can only ask the heads of Egypt to provide us with any information or a shred of information about the fate of our missing people, and we do this day and night. We will not rest until we know what happened to our heroes. “In the years since the Yom Kippur War, the fate of Capt. Meron Eltgar has not yet been made clear, so that for 27 years since Abraham’s covenant, Miron’s name has appeared unceasingly in the newspapers in Israel and abroad “To. Yedioth Ahronoth’s articles about Meron’s circumcision ceremony for foreign newspapers, and his bar-mitzvah ceremony was widely publicized when Uri Kessari wrote a major article in Haaretz on the occasion of the Bar-Mitzvah ceremony. , Foreign delegates and consuls, headed by the ambassadors of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the Turkish delegate, ambassadors from Africa, Asia, Europe, ministers, heads of the IDF and public leaders. The ceremony of awarding the IDF Chief of Staff’s citation after his death was published in all the Israeli newspapers and in some English newspapers. How did it happen that Captain Meron Eltiger’s name received so much publicity in the papers? The answer can be found in the words of former Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who wrote in the book of visits of “The Commander’s House”, which was established in the name of Captain Meron in a two-story house and whose seven rooms contain dozens of accessories and documents of general national value. “I was very moved by my visit to the Meron Althagar House of Commander, because in this house a lot of historical depth, the heroism of the Jews and the stony image of a son on the background Of deep sorrow and heroism, this is a treasure house of spirit and majesty, and a figure, and sorrow and hope. In one of the rooms of Beit Ha-Cappad, two letters were personally written by the two presidents of Israel: Prof. Ephraim Katzir wrote: “I read with emotion the collection of your poems” The Lament of a Bereaved Father, “Dear Mr. Altgar, Thanks to the bravery of our dear sons, The beloved of Meron, and the devotion of the bereaved fathers and mothers, we have succeeded in repelling the enemy, thwarting his schemes and ensuring the continuation of the building and creation in the free State of Israel – and this will be your consolation. “President Yitzhak Navon wrote:” I asked for all the material related to the tragedy that struck your home. I read and reviewed all the details of the investigation into Miron’s absence. Every once in a while I read Bash”The Miron Museum is based on an excerpt from Shaul Tchernichovsky’s poem” Man is but a land of a small land. “Indeed, in the garden there are eight types of shrubs brought to the site from Mount Meron With special stones taken from the mountain. In Meron’s room, six pictures of all six Israeli prime ministers have been published since the establishment of the state, and their personal letters to the Eltgar family in connection with Israel’s wars, especially the Yom Kippur War, combined with the development of the state. As commander of a company in the Armored Corps, Captain Meron Eltgar served as an example of courage, and was written in the Chief of Staff’s citation given to him after they had despaired of deciphering the secret of his fall: “On October 6, 1973, A tank division in the area north of Kantara, rushed to the aid of a damaged force and to help the battered strongholds, while the second tank was moving along with it.Although Miron Eltgar’s tank remained alone, Captain Meron Eltgar continued to move towards the injured force, Courage and devotion to the mission and brotherhood of fighters. “Mordechai Gur, Lt.-Gen., Chief of the General Staff Nine years earlier, “In Haifa and in the military boarding school, Meron celebrated his Bar Mitzvah ceremony, which received a lot of publicity in the media in Israel, England and the United States, and the story was published in different shades in all the Israeli newspapers. (The text is from Yedioth Ahronoth) All of the country’s leading figures, ministers, deputy ministers, Knesset members, army and police commanders, and all senior diplomats and public figures gathered for the Bar-Mitzvah ceremony in Ramat Gan, the son of the editor of the English magazine “Diplomat” and a spokesman for the Ramat Gan municipality. According to the consent of the local rabbis, 14 candles were lit in the hall, with famous public figures invited to light each candle in honor of Meron. The Russian ambassador, Mr. Dimitry Tzubakhin, was excited to light a candle and it was a blue and white candle. “In his sermon to the ministers, ambassadors and all the people from Israel and abroad, Meron said: “When a person stands before his God, that is, when a person stands before a conscientious decision, he must remove the veil and say: ‘When a person stands before his God, “I am a vertical servant of the people of God,” which means: My supreme conscience is loyalty to the people of Israel, in this honorable position – in the presence of the ministers of the government Mucous nations I promise you, dear parents and distinguished guests, to maintain this principle throughout my life. ” On the cover of an elegant Bible that Shimon Peres brought to Meron, the former defense minister wrote: “Miron will defy you when you reach the mitzvot – that no summit will back you up and no challenge will grow up on your path.” The military boarding school was written, among other things, about Miron in 1968: “One of the greatest in the camp. A soccer player and a surprising basketball player. Love to fight by unconventional means. To this day, the memory of his war on the bus to Hebron has raised the fear of memory. Ohad Hashiryon from the beginning of the boarding school and not in vain was called by his friends – Patton. “(In the name of the American general – and the tank in Israel’s possession). His story “Smoking” won the boarding school prize and was published among the outstanding works. He also wrote in Yedioth Ramat Gan. In the IDF, he completed four courses in the Armored Corps with considerable success and was awarded the age of 21 to serve as deputy commander of the Petunim Company, in the well-known Armored Battalion, which fought many battles.Commander of the Miron Eltgar Brigade, Major General Danny Matte wrote: “For what purpose is the state – for the sake of the existence of the people and the land … The existence of the people is possible when there are such sons willing to throw their lives away. The debt which we all owe to those who sacrificed their lives. It will be a little shrine. “The commander of the BA Division wrote in the book of visits:” The visit to the Beit Ha-Camer in the name of Captain Meron Eltgar is one of the most exciting visits I have ever experienced, because of the intense power of parental love for their son – Which was nurtured in the spirit of the love of Zion and Israel. “The House of the Commander” is a monument that deserves to be visited and to be encouraged, and here there is a feeling that the people have won sons worthy of their memory and eternity. Professor (Maj. Gen.) Yehuda Wallach wrote, among other things, in the book of visits: “In your visit to Beit Merom, in the name of Captain Meron Eltgar, you do not feel a need to console – you are the one who is comforted.” His grandfather visited Professor Joseph Klausner and Rabbi Natan Milikovsky (grandfather of the late Lieutenant Colonel Yoni Netanyahu). Miron’s great-grandfather, Reuven Moskovsky, was the first Hebrew teacher in Latvia, and his cousin – the famous Marian Zid. One of the poems of the bereaved father that was published in Maariv reads: “Now you were next to me / with the rank of serpents on your shoulders / as a sign of heroism and an expression of nothing – as is common among your friends / What would I do and how? Nussek / laughs and kisses … “The battalion commander, colonel YT. “The committee concluded in accordance with its recommendations but did not define them at the present stage as a decoration, but rather as a commendation on behalf of the chief of staff, because one of the committee’s major concerns is “In one of the father’s poems -” The Home Front “- it says:” Because man is but the pattern of the landscape and the rock / and the people’s heroism in the sling against Galit, against the army of Assyria, the army of Assyria, Jon and Vasspineus / with whom since Yom Kippur / every Jew has been connected. / / “Captain Meron joined forever with the rock landscape of Mount Meron. And a hero joined together to “Land of a small land” – Eretz Israel Meron was drafted into the IDF in early November 1970 and assigned to the Armored Corps. After completing a course in the Armored Corps School, he was sent to the tank commanders course and then completed an officer’s course and a course for armored officers. As a young commander in the armored corps, he was sent to a famous armored battalion on the Sinai front and served there in various command posts. He was an exemplary officer and commander, devoted to his job, responsible and faithful to his men. In the opinion they wrote: “A devoted and responsible officer, who has initiative and concern for his people, is honest and pretentious, tries hard, is devoted and does good and thorough work.” This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.