Manor (Gechman), Doron

Their son is the firstborn of Yoel and Tzipora. The father was one of the leaders of the organization of guards in Rehovot and of the National Military Organization at the time. He was born on 11 June 1941 in Rehovot. From the day he was born, Doron turned in an atmosphere of yearning for Israel’s independence. When he was seven years old, his parents moved to Ramat Gan. Doron joined the Scouts movement there, and when he graduated from Shalva high school he was drafted into the IDF, which was in July 1959. Immediately his commanders recognized the qualities of an officer and a leader and sent him to a course that he successfully completed. After that he was transferred to the battalion where he served and was sent to the MM course and was an outstanding pupil there, and even then he noticed his humility and did not tell him about his actions, because he did not even mention that he received the title of outstanding student. He was sent to a company commander course and excelled in this course as well. In 1964 he returned to his battalion as a company commander and met with his friends – a battalion he loved and used to spend his days and nights with. There he also met his girlfriend Haim, who took him to a wife and set up a house in Israel; They settled in Givatayim. Soon Doron was on the ladder of command. He participated in battles and operations against the sabotage squads in 1965, 1966 and 1967, as well as in Samua. In the Six-Day War, Doron was a company commander in the brigade of Colonel Rafael (Eitan Eitan) and was one of the first fighters to reach the positions of Rafah. If his last commander, Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Peles (Stempel), was known as the first to raise the Israeli flag on the Western Wall, after the war Major Doron (then captain) was the first paratrooper officer to arrive in Qantara and the Suez Canal. About a month before they fell, Doron was appointed battalion commander for Moshe Stempel in the same battalion where he grew up, was educated and ascended the ladder of command, trained his soldiers, set up ambushes for the Fatah cells and prevented acts of sabotage and demand. They noted Doron’s career in the IDF until his last day. He noted a similar chase on September 19, 1968, when he fell in the company of his commander and comrades-in-arms in a remote hut south of the Beit She’an Valley when they encountered the enemy. He put down a wife. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. Thousands of people participated in the funeral, including Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Haim Bar-Lev, Chief Military Rabbi General Shlomo Goren and senior IDF officers. The funeral was shared by Lt. Col. Moshe Peles, commander of the battalion, and to the battalion commander Major Doron Manor and to the soldier Shammai Shayevitz. One family from Israel (the Zuberman family) decided to name their son after Doron. His memory was raised in “The Book of the Fallen” published by the Givatayim Municipality, as well as in Uri Milstein’s “First Assassins.”