Tabalib, Danny

Ben Penny and Zvi. Born on July 26, 1970 in Argentina. Danny was three years old when his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Kibbutz Dafna. The families’ absorption lines were not easy. The kindergarten children did not give him a warm welcome, but Danny did not respond to the children’s attitude towards him, because he was already very gentle. From an early age he had a curiosity, a sense of observation and distinction. He went to first grade with the children of Gan Ofarim and continued on the regular route, from the elementary school to the Har V’Gai High School. He was a quiet child by nature, a little shy, but those who knew him very well knew about his special personality and his constant determination to integrate into the social frameworks in which he grew up. Danny knew how to fill his world and occupy himself without needing others. Here and there, in one soul-searching, he would open up and reveal himself. He was not talkative, modesty was one of his most prominent features, and he sang peace and quiet around him. He worked in the carpentry shop thanks to his intelligence, but the aquaculture team asked him to join them. On the eve of his enlistment in the IDF, Danny invested in fitness training, and in his room there were sports equipment through which he gave vent to the energy stored in him, and devoted his time to running training and to the gym, and his appearance was solid and full of health Danny joined the army in February 1989 and volunteered to serve in the Golani reconnaissance unit. A course for commanders and commanders and friends indicates that he was a good soldier, disciplined, who made sure everything was done impeccably. He had a pedantry and a desire for precision. At one point Danny left the unit and went to serve in the battalion. His hand was injured and he was hospitalized, and when his condition improved, the GOC Northern Command was appointed. The desire to be a combat soldier did not stop him, and he talked about it with the general, who promised to help him. Danny fell during his duty on the first of Tammuz 1990 (4.7.1990). He died in a fatal road accident on the Rosh Pina-Kiryat Shmona road, on his way back to the base after carrying out his mission, transporting the President of Israel between various sites. Danny was laid to rest in the military section of the cemetery in his kibbutz, Dafna. He was twenty years old when he fell. Survived by his parents and three sisters – Dorit, Naomi and Michal. Lines of his figure were recorded in a booklet that was published in his memory.