Ben Shoshana and Shimon. He was born on February 27, 1977 in Carmiel. My eldest brother to my uncle and Moran, a pleasant, quiet, smiling boy. He grew up and was educated in Kiryat Haim. He studied at the “Meginim” elementary school and graduated from the Kiryat Haim high school with a biological track. Yaniv was a promising athlete. In his hometown he played basketball and was doing bodybuilding training at the gym – two sports in which he excelled. On August 8, 1995, Yaniv was drafted into the Navy. After receiving acceptance tests, he was accepted to the elite naval commando unit 13. After twenty particularly difficult months, physically and emotionally, on April 1, 1997, Yaniv successfully completed the course and received his appointment as a combat soldier in the unit. First Sergeant Yaniv Shamiel fell in combat in Lebanon on Tuesday, September 5, 1997, during the most difficult event in the history of the Shayetet 13, which was dubbed the “Naval Commando.” On the night between 4 and 5 September, Under the command of Lt. Col. Yossi Korkin, under the command of Lt. Col. Yossi Korkin, during the secret operation “Poplar Song.” The force was hit by several roadside bombs, along the route of the Israeli channel “Arava Road.” After the explosions, Which was on the bodies of the fighters, and the battle and rescue attempts continued for many hours, and only at dawn did the harsh picture emerge: Eleven of the fighters were killed, Lu One of them was missing, and four of the others were injured, and the contact, which was the only one that was not injured, succeeded in returning fire and calling for the rescue force: Yaniv fell: his commander, Lt. Col. Yossi Korkin, Major Dr. Tzachi Bentov, Maher, Captain Zvi Grossman, Captain Ram Levinas, Sergeant Major Aryeh Abramson, Sergeant Yohanan Hilberg, Sergeant Raz Tabi, First Sergeant Guy Golan and First Sergeant Gal Rudovsky Sergeant Major Itamar Ilya, That same night his body was returned to Israel in June 1998. Yaniv was twenty-seven months old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. Survived by mother, brother and sister. His father died after they fell. His parents wrote: “Yaniv was a symbol and an example of dedication, credibility, friendship and courage, and he was handsome, large, modest and modest, and in short, an angel. His virtues and his modesty, and he will never forget him. ” Yaniv was immortalized in Kiryat Haim at the monument erected at the entrance to the city and at the city’s clock station. In memory of the twelve fallen soldiers of the Shayetet disaster, a monument was erected on the Shavei Zion beach, south of Nahariya. The monument is built of twelve tables of hard kurkar rock that were brought from Malta. The tables are leaning on top of one another and leaning north toward Lebanon, where the fighters left. There is also a rock with a bronze plaque bearing the names of the fallen. Another monument was erected on the promenade on the seashore of Rishon LeZion, at the initiative of a resident of the city of Nachshon Tabi, whose son Raz Tabi was among the victims of the disaster. The monument is built of a dozen steel columns standing with the names of the fallen, which form the symbol of the Star of David. Following the establishment of the monument, the boardwalk was changed from the “Rishon Lezion promenade” to the “Shayetet 13” promenade. A year after the disaster, a missile ship “Ahad Kedon” sank from the service as a memorial site for the fallen soldiers of the Shayetet, a memorial service was held for the first time in memory of the fallen soldiers. The deck of the ship that had been sunk. Hundreds of divers dive into the navy during the year, and on the day of remembrance dozens of divers descend to salute their friends.
