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Rodberg, Dov (“Dubi”)

Rodberg, Dov (“Dubi”)


Son of Shaul and Mina. He was born on the 14th of Adar 5708 (February 14, 1948) in Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh, and his mother and two children lived for about a year at Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha, and only a year later, When the split in the kibbutz movement began in 1953, they were forced to return and set up Kibbutz Einat, and in all the vicissitudes of this time, Dubi grew up and became a source of joy and satisfaction for the parents, and attracted the eyes of all his viewers with his beauty and intelligent and deep eyes. He did not stand out from the rest of the class, but with his intelligence and good Lev he stood out from the beginning and was loved by all He studied at Kibbutz Einat and excelled in his studies in all subjects, because he was diligent and diligent, he was a good friend of the class and was an example of his behavior and dedication. Once, he went to the vineyard to go to the vineyard to work with his father, who was his favorite hobby, and was also successful in sports. He would spend a lot of time listening to classical music, from which he not only enjoyed but also learned, along with his brother, to recognize classical compositions and composers from the large collection of records he had at home. Dubi also read a lot. When he was still a child he worked with other children in the class to get to know all the planes of the Israel Air Force, which had begun to grow stronger, and were signed by the Air Force magazine, which included the various airplane models. He spent his weekends in the upper grades of the school (and later when he was in the army) and devoted himself to playing soccer in the “Hapoel” Einat – Givat Hashlosha team and was one of the best players in the school. In Einat until he finished in 1966. Dovi was drafted into the IDF in November 1966. When he joined the army, he was in the army Bass that broke in one of the games. So they “took off his profile” and he was posted to the Signal Corps. This distressed him very much because he wanted to volunteer for the Air Force to an elite combat unit. He immediately began to move to another unit and after much effort and medical examinations he was assigned to the Golani unit. In the middle of the course, the Six-Day War broke out, and his company took part in the battles, and its members were sent to conquer and purify the city of Nablus, where a serious baptism of fire took place and some of its members fell in battles in the city. She was forced to go up to Kibbutz Gonen, where he had a taste of shelling and suffered losses: Dubi was almost the first of his friends to come home on leave after the fighting, and the physical exertions were evident not only in his body (his face drooping, his stature was low, He also suffered a mental crisis over the loss of many friends, fighters and comrades for weapons and training The gentle bear could bear the burden of war because he was disgusted by war and killing, and he could not bear the fact that the Arab population was in power, and in his opinion it was necessary to reach an agreement quickly with the Arabs, even at the cost of returning territories. He successfully completed an officers’ course and returned as an officer to the Golani training base, and his work was not easy.The recruits for the soldiers. He served as commander of a company in November 1969, and in November 1969 he completed his regular service as a company commander, then went on vacation and began organizing for his civilian life. He volunteered for another year in career service, and in January 1970 he was sent to the company commander’s course, cum laude and promoted to captain. For reference and study and the question of his father if there is so much to study military, he replied: “Although these Not Bible lessons, but military matters also have something to learn. ” Later it turned out that he was a real expert in navigating and knowing areas from maps used in operations and raids in enemy territory, in which he participated with his company in the north in the area of ​​”Fatahland.” After the course he received command of an auxiliary company of a well-known battalion, that the company was in an unstable situation. The commanders were often replaced, and her men, who were old, were very free. It was only three months that Dubi worked with them and invested a great deal of work in them, but within a short period of time he managed to gain their trust and bring them to unbelievable achievements – all thanks to his educational and cultural approach to them. Then he would rarely come home on vacation and would immediately take care of various matters. Once he came home for a short vacation after an operation in the north and he was tired and exhausted. That evening an urgent message arrived and Dubi was called back. After he fell, the battalion commander told his father about the incident: The commanders of the squads in his company did not obey the order, and the battalion decided to punish them.There was a fact that Dovi, who arrived at the scene, At the end of July 1970, he was sent with his company to reinforce reserve forces on Mount Hermon, where we were forced to cross our front posts to enable our people to take control of the area of ​​Fatahland. They were workers and soldiers who secured their work, and Dubi was there and managed things as he saw fit Hugh wanted to go upstairs and in a meeting with the battalion commander he said he was in love with the area and the landscape he knew only from night visits. He was Simcha to be in daylight and command the security. On August 3, Dovi was informed of a wounded soldier at one of the posts and immediately went out with one of his soldiers to rescue the wounded man. On the way, a shell exploded next to him and he was critically wounded in the throat and leg of his right hand. Despite the help he was given there (because there was a doctor there), he arrived at the hospital very late. Several doctors participated in his analysis because they saw that his condition was dangerous. For the next two days he seemed to be overcoming his wounds, but his lungs, which had been polluted, stopped functioning. On the 7th of Av 5709 (August 9, 1970), he died of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the Einat cemetery, on the western slopes of the Hermon, where Dubi was wounded, rising to a height of fifteen hundred meters, In the name of “Mount Dov”, Gideon decided to commemorate his name and the names of those who died in the breakthrough by erecting a monument on Mount Hermon. Einat took the “Einat Einat” dedicated to him in the “Thirty”, and at the top of the booklet came the words of the brigade commander, “On his grave,” which read: “The circumstances in which you were hurt were so typical of your way in the brigade. Sent with unitTo the Hermon area to reinforce another unit that operated there. The responsibility for the operations in the area was not assigned to you. You could send your people to the various positions as a working order, but you felt the need to take responsibility for the operations in which your soldiers took part, and to be with them in carrying them out. And what you felt was right to do, you did a deed. When you received the report that one of your soldiers had been injured in the shelling, you did not stop with an order to evacuate him: You felt yourself in the bombed area in front of the outposts to make sure of your quick evacuation and on your way to the injured person, It will be a comfort to your parents, your friends and your grieving friends, that your exemplary character and behavior will serve as an example of the generations’ education of commanders in the brigade. ” On the first anniversary of his death Einat “Pages” appeared in his memory. The “Hapoel” news item of February 1971 includes a picture of him and a short article on it. The article contains an article about a football tournament held in memory of him at the beginning of February, with the participation of the Givat Hashlosha, Kfar Ma’as, Einat and Savyon groups. At the end of the article it says: “He fell, at the age of twenty-two, in a battle on the slopes of Mount Hermon, with excellent service as an officer in the Golani Brigade, glory battles in the Six Day War and bold raids behind the enemy line. After they fell, a booklet was published in his memory and in memory of his uncle, Rodberg Rudolph (who fell in the murderous attack on the participants of the national convention for the knowledge of the country in Ramat Rachel in 1956). The book “Children of the Plain”; The Golani Brigade Fighters’ Bulletin published a list in memory of our brother-in-law, the story of Dubi and “Dov Dov”.

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