Steiner, Shahar
Ben Tzvia and Yigal. He was born on March 31, 1985 in Kibbutz Megiddo, brother of Maya, Limor and Ziv, and Dagan was born in the regional elementary school at Kibbutz Hazorea and later at Megiddo Regional High School The judge passed the matriculation exams in full, although his visits to school in the last academic year were rare, and his group remembers him as “the strongest boy in the group, who helped us learn to ride a bike and always stayed last in Mahanaim. Shahar wanted to join the army in the wake of his brother, but on the day of enlistment, at the end of March 2004, he was stationed in the armored corps. He reluctantly accepted the verdict, and at the beginning of the road suffered from tight discipline and hard work. Later, he adapted himself to the situation, went to the tank drivers course and at the end was stationed in Brigade 7 as the driver of the Merkava tank in the Hermon company. His devoted work in the kibbutz fields and the many hours of experience he accumulated on the tractor helped him now and contributed to his skills as a lead tank driver in Battalion 77. Shahar’s military service was not easy. His year in the company opened and ended with intense operational activity around the Gaza Strip. His first baptism of fire was at the Philadelphi Route, the night the JVT outpost exploded. Shahar led his team to the scene and upon their first arrival enabled the evacuation while fighting and hitting the terrorists. “The battalion commander said:” You have mastered professionalism, calmness and reinforced the sense that you can be trusted, that in any situation you will take the tank wherever you need. ” Shahar spent a long period of time in Gush Katif and later served in the northern line, the Golan Heights and the Jordan Valley. His commanders saw him as a professional fighter and an excellent tank driver, a loyal friend who volunteered to help and volunteer of his own accord. His comrades knew how to appreciate his gift and remember how he would walk around among the guards in the wee hours and take care of them to drink and eat. During his military service Shahar participated in one of the largest and most significant missions in the history of the State of Israel: the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlements. This experience left him deeply impressed and deeply lost in his soul. Shahar experiences hard moments of mMet loaded with the evacuated settlers, with a heavy cloud of frustration hovering over the activity and arousing sharp questions. After the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlements, Shahar and his comrades were stationed at the “Enufim” outpost on the Gaza border, at an outpost that was built in the fields of Kibbutz Nirim. Shahar fell during his duty on September 22, 2005, on his way to operational activity. It was afternoon. The tank crew Shahar was in was taken by car to a nearby post, when a car accident occurred in the fields of Kibbutz Nirim and Shahar was killed. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Megiddo. Survived by parents, three sisters and a brother. Shahar was twenty years old when they were taken from his family. Young, handsome, big and strong. A son and brother who has plenty of kindness and love.
