Goldfarb, Uri
Uri son of-Neshka and Zvi, a Holocaust survivor, was born on November 6, 1945, in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1947. He studied at the elementary school in Kibbutz Farod and continued his studies at the Kibbutz Ginosar High School, He was a student at the Tel Hai College and Uri was a diligent and diligent student, loved by his teachers and friends, and was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement and eventually became the instructor of a Nahal group composed of students of the Kaduri School. Separated farm. Uri was drafted into the IDF in early August 1964 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade. After being released from regular service, he completed a course for company commanders in the Armored Corps. During the War of Attrition he volunteered to command one of the strongholds on the banks of the Suez Canal. His commander testifies that he was an efficient, loyal, responsible and dedicated officer and loved his subordinates. For his participation in the war in 1967 he was awarded the “Six Day War”. Uri returned to the farm, and established the cotton industry and concentrated it for three years and in the dead seasons became the center of work in the agriculture. Uri was restless, deliberated a lot and asked to try ways of life outside the kibbutz; One year he was a security officer at El Al Airlines and after returning to the agriculture he went out to examine another route. He loved to read and was a pleasant conversationalist, loved to travel around the country and photograph its landscapes. And also liked ornamental plants and wild plants. As a man he was withdrawn and restrained, a little shy and a loner. He was by nature stubborn and always striving for completeness and distance from routine and normality. He also sought to correct the social situation in the agriculture. It was always right to help others and to listen to every person. He was a loyal and devoted son to his parents, honest and conscientious. In the Yom Kippur War Uri participated in the battles of containment and incursion against the Syrians in the Golan Heights. On October 19, 1973, Uri fell in a battle that took place in the Um-Butna area. Uri was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Parod. Survived by father, mother, brother and sister. After his fall, he was promoted to the rank of Major. He was awarded the Medal of Valor for the heroism he discovered in carrying out a combat role. “On October 7, 1973, after a fierce battle in the antitank gunner in front of Tel Fares, Major Uri Goldfarb dragged and organized the rescue of tanks that were left without fuel in the position, walking on foot, exposed to artillery fire for about three hours Hours, until he brought the whole battalion into a night car park, and on October 10 he managed the rescue of the brigade’s stuck tanks, evacuating casualties from the tanks that were hit by heavy artillery fire. And during the day he planned and prepared the battalion for the conquest of Um-Butana. On October 19, he commanded a tank force that captured Um-Butna in cooperation with the paratroopers, showing his command and courage more than usual. On October 19, a call was received for the rescue of the wounded from the armored infantry unit, which was located east of the village, and under the heavy fire of tanks, which stood 800 meters away, Major Uri Goldfarb, Major Uri Goldfarb, who was a paratrooper and converted to tanks a week before the war, found extraordinary direction and control in tanks and in command of strength, exemplary courage, dedication and comradeship. “The weekly Bamahane published a list In his memory as “a paratrooper as a lieutenant colonel.”
