,אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים, שׁוכֵן בַּמְּרומִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכונָה
,עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה בְּמַעֲלות קְדושִׁים, טְהורִים וְגִבּורִים
כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ מַזְהִירִים, לְנִשְׁמות חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Omri, Tel
The second son of Shlomit and Eyal. He was born on the 19th of Cheshvan 5737 (19.11.1987). Brother to Shahar and Tom-Li. Tal grew up in Kfar Sava. He studied at the Ben-Gurion elementary school, went on to the Bar-Lev junior high school and graduated from the Katznelson High School in communications. Tal was outstanding in his talents in this field and was involved in photography, directing and editing films. Throughout his life, Tal dealt in sports as a way of life. He was an outstanding athlete and an exceptional athlete. His calmness, toughness, and audacity were evident in his childhood. When he was in first grade, his parents were recommended to join him for training at the Wingate Institute in the field of gymnastics and instruments. “He has the qualities we’re looking for,” explained the coach, “physical strength and courage.” Indeed, even when he was a primary school student, Tal stood out for his strength and the courage he exhibited in exercises, mainly on rings. He won third place in this country. Gymnastics in this industry, through hard work, strenuous and uncompromising, strengthened the desire for perfection, self discipline and achievement. Later Tal played basketball at Maccabi Kfar Saba and was a dominant player in his team, as his coach described his style on the field: “stubbornly, devotedly, suicide on every ball.” More than Tal, he loved skiing and surfed abroad, and in this challenging field, and on his first ski vacation as a boy, he showed courage and perseverance: “He was the first to open the site and the last one to close it. Even in the most turbulent times, he did not give up and glided from the mountaintops without fear, as he blends perfectly with the slopes of the snowy mountains. “Tal wanted to make a significant contribution to the IDF. “One day, while I was in Hebron,” Shahar said, “he called me and said to me:” They ask me: General Staff or the General Staff. Shaldag, what do you say? “I smiled inside and after a brief consultation he chose the first option.” On November 24, 2005, Tal joined the Sayeret Matkal commando unit and began the course of the David team, and more than a year later joined the Ilan team in the Magellan unit, which received a medal following the Second Lebanon War. His military service included arduous training and necessitated maintaining high physical fitness. When he arrived at the officers’ training course, he had a hard time, he recalls, “Suddenly he came to the base with very strict rules, and he was used to living as a combat soldier. Tal aspired to be a military commander. After completing an officer’s course, he returned to the unit as a team commander – the Talker team. (Talker was nicknamed “Sayeret Matkal” and later in “Magellan”), later appointed to the post of deputy commander of a combat squadron, and during the course of his duties, Tal designed soldiers and the army designed him and his personality. The ceremony was held close to Independence Day 2011, about a month before its fall, and Tal received the captain’s rank about a year earlier than usual. Throughout his military career his family was in constant anxiety, but made sure not to ask unnecessary questions “I love you,” he said, “I’m the last one you need to worry about.” Tal loved people, he treated everyone and people loved him. His followers in 2009 wrote to him: “There will always be a team behind you, wherever you are inAnd a briefing … “Tal was a warrior and an officer with humility and modesty as a part of him.” “What humility does a man need to speak not in praise of himself, but about what he lacks …” We built, shaped and shaped us according to your views and the shadow of your image. Modestly and modestly you used to turn to us: ‘Dear Staff’ and not on your behalf, ‘The Talker Team’ … You were an inseparable part of the ‘we’ and always in our heads. The ‘we’ – one team, we are the whole. We together on Saturdays, together on stretchers, together on trips, together all the way … In the way you turned to us, you always included yourself in our failures, and removed yourself from our successes … “His friend Noam says:” Even when we did not see each other long, To come home to Apter, because you said you should be a personal example, that it is not fair for the soldiers to stay, and you will go out … “Tal was able to achieve his goals one by one precisely, with meticulous planning, The commander of the voyage, Major Ran, described his special behavior: “So strong, so self-aware, always on the way to another summit, and when he arrives, he dreams of the next. He loves the country and its landscapes, and is a model for all his actions, and a commander in every aspect of his life. Tal, with all these wonderful qualities, you always knew how to keep the famous smile and create an atmosphere of fun and goodness around you … You were a guide to me. “Ariel L., his teammate, said:” Tal is a sophisticated innocence … To a staff with the handsome face of an innocent child, the more you know him, the more wisdom and intelligence there is in your head behind the innocent innocent eyes. Talker can not be stopped because what he wants is achieved, and you can not ask too many questions, he just conquers the target, and does it quietly, which is so typical of him … Tal used to say, ‘Do not ask questions, so you will not hear lies ‘”His teammates admired him for his qualities:” Talker, we quickly understood who we were dealing with: smiling, conquering, quiet and safe. You immediately became the team’s imbecile … We admired you, Talker, for the calmness and security, for the true understanding of the situation, for the fact that you always told the truth inside, even when it was not pleasant to hear it … and for knowing everything! You got out of every situation – you knew that this was the only way to win! As time went on, you did the natural process, and we saw how you were turning from being a team leader into a commander who took leadership and leadership. How can you not follow you? You are smarter than all of us, you have conquered us with your slow, safe, convincing and precise speech. You have it without a doubt. “Generation A, his team mate, added:” I appreciated you for your military path, And the pride that led you on your way with a smile on your face … We stayed in the unit, and there we had, without words, the shared pride … “Alongside the calmness, simplicity, peace and quiet that Tal radiated, “His commander said that what he demanded of himself demanded of his soldiers, who described him as follows:” Between all your sides there is this side, which we did not know. To forget, that some of us are still afraid of him. That side of the clear boundaries, the one that put us in place, the one that never gave up, the one we never understood … Why can not we get the foot off the gas? Today, we understand a little more about where you were aiming, and why this is the way you chose to lead us … “His colleagues said that” Tal was perhaps the coolest man in the unit, “and the unit commander summed up:” Gentle, smart and sensitive,”When Tal received an outstanding officer’s certificate, no one in the family was surprised: Every time they thought he was finishing a job and was discharged from the army, he surprised and said:” They still need me in the unit, maybe … after the next job. ” “Tal, you take me to a lot of trips, you take me to springs and waterfalls, You show me the beautiful Land of Israel with your feet and do not give up! The problem is that … sometimes … you forget that I am only a child, and I have not yet enlisted in the army. Every trip you have is a journey, and you know …, the experience in the Judean Desert, I’ll never forget! By the way, I also love to eat yogurt with you in the mall. “Tal was fond of traveling in Israel and spending time with his family, and before leaving, the family traveled with friends to Kibbutz Gadot in the Upper Galilee. He thought it would be the last trip with Tal: “He managed to get off on vacation and arrived only on Friday afternoon. Because he arrived late, I and I drove together on a trip to join the family. All the way we talked about a lot of things – about the army, about him, about society …. In the evening, I and I went to an Arab restaurant in Zarzir, and then we went to a pub that Shtal knew in Rosh Pina. The next day we all went for a walk and Tal was the navigator. Tal loved traveling the country and knew every route and trail. When he asked him once if he knew how to reach Afula by car, he replied innocently: “I know better to get there on foot.” Tal knew the Land of Israel with all its springs, loved the desert, And did not give up on the Galilee and the Golan Heights, and always persuaded them to sleep under the stars, to look at the stars and to smile, and he moved his love to the Land of Israel not only to his soldiers but also to his family and his friends in civilian life. We have the sea and the sunset, you are the one who shows us the beautiful Land of Israel through innumerable springs and streams. You are the one who gives us the quiet flow of water in streams and streams, and everything is natural and uncompromising simplicity … You do not have a main road. “Dad, take a right,” you would say, leading us through dirt paths to magical places, and then quiet … and nature fits in. “Tal was the deputy commander of a unit in his unit, and on the last day of his life was supposed to serve as a force commander for the first time. At 11:30 AM, he arrived at the base to prepare himself for a complicated training exercise that had begun a week earlier in the preparation of a combat procedure: Tal left his car and sat down for a few minutes to talk to his friends before he was supposed to pick up the fighters. I got dizzy, “he managed to say, rising from his chair, taking three steps and collapsing, instead of the unit doctor, reserve doctors and a paramedic. He was taken to Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, where his body systems collapsed and his death was determined, and his family and friends found it difficult to understand how the healthy, athletic, tough and strong fighter, both mentally and physically, never broke. How to explain what happened, how the strongest person I know from outside and inside, falls in one moment. “The only thing I can say to myself is that God really wants the best people close to him, you were the best of all …” His friend, Noam Rosenberg, returned from the funeral and assembled the shocked fighters who stood before him and said: The thing thatTal wanted to do, and by that we are actually continuing his path. . . If Tal could tell us what he wanted, he would insist that we continue to train and prepare for the real thing. “Captain Tal Omri fell in operational activity on June 12, 2011 at the age of twenty-three and a half when he fell. “So young, and yet touched so many people.” Said the Minister of Science, Mr. Daniel Hershkowitz. Tal was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He was followed by parents, brother and sister. When Tal felt that he was not satisfied with a certain thing – a trip, a meal, a party or a task that did not meet his expectations – he would say, “The performance is half power.” “When we fell, we all remained ‘half-power,'” his parents said. The commander of the unit eulogized him and said that “at their first meeting at the Training Base 1, Tal emphasized his desire to continue to influence his military service … Tal could have taught us all a mission … Tal’s legacy – officer, fighter, friend and brother – We were on our way. “Tal’s teammates and subordinates called him Talker, so his words were engraved on the tombstone:” Talker “- his name in Sayeret Matkal, which became his identity in the Magellan unit.