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Swet, Yair

Swet, Yair


Yair, son of Ruth and Zvi, was born on 25 June 1951 in Kfar Mordechai. His first years were spent on a “grain” farm, which was on the ground in the region of Kastina, in the northern Negev. He studied at the Alharizi School in Tel Baruch. When he was fourteen, he traveled with his family to the United States for the healing of his father, who was crippled by World War II. Where Yair began his high school studies. When he returned to Israel, he volunteered to help Kibbutz Tel Yosef in the fishing industry. After the Six-Day War he joined the desert tours of Neot-Kikar, which were the first pioneers to infiltrate and explore this new-old land. Yair enlisted in the IDF early in February 1969 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he found his place and went from strength to strength and successfully completed most courses in Armored Corps: basic training, an artillery course, a tank course and a tank commander course. He completed an officer’s course, an officer’s training course, and a platoon commander’s course, and successfully completed a parachute course with an average grade of 90. His senior commanders debated whether he was a very good officer or Only after the end of his compulsory service, he joined the ranks of the career army He was appointed commander of a company in the famous 7th Brigade, and his commanders were full of praise: “An officer who stands in difficult situations and in battle shows courage and determination. “An officer with a strong sense of responsibility and fulfilling his role in the best possible way, with good command and control.” Yair was given a ” “The brigade’s deployment in all parts of the country did not prevent him from calling home from time to time and even” jumping “for a few hours to calm his family.In the Yom Kippur War, Yair fought his battles in the Golan Heights and on the 11th of Tishrei (7.10.1973), in a battle for the Harmonic, his tank was hit directly when he felt the help of his men and Yair was killed, and at first he was temporarily buried in his grave In Afula, the city to which his father had arrived as an immigrant, he was brought to rest in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, where he laid his parents, two brothers and two sisters, and was promoted to the rank of Captain. “Lieutenant Yair Suet was a commander of a tank company in the battles in the Golan Heights, and on October 7, 1973, he went up to fire positions and hit enemy tanks at short range ranges of 500-200 meters, and succeeded in causing the enemy heavy losses. During the fighting, a tank was hit in his company and the crew appeared to be jumping. Lt. Yair Swat approached the crew to see what had happened and when he was arrested, injured and killed, Captain Yair Swat was an exemplary example of his bravery and cold-heartedness for the entire company. In his letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Your son, Captain Yair, served in the Armored Corps as a commander of a tank company and served in the unit for a year and a half, Trained the soldiers of the unit and prepared them for war in an excellent manner, was endowed with kindness, for example, and was loved and loved by all his subordinates and commanders, diligent and courageous and exemplary, In his letter to the bereaved family, the defense minister noted that “Yair was defined as an efficient, disciplined, loyal, successful officerLove everything. Yair’s memory is sacred and we were deeply rooted in our hearts. “His period of service in the routine, training and battles of the Golan Heights, as part of his tank battalion, is described in the book of his commander, Avigdor Kahalani,” Oz 77 “.

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