,אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים, שׁוכֵן בַּמְּרומִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכונָה
,עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה בְּמַעֲלות קְדושִׁים, טְהורִים וְגִבּורִים
כְּזֹהַר הָרָקִיעַ מַזְהִירִים, לְנִשְׁמות חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
Tendler, Karen
Daughter of Riwana and Dan. Born on September 26, 1979 in Rehovot, the eldest sister of Nadav, she studied at Yavne’eli Elementary School and in the ORT Rehovot College, and was gifted with a high technical sense. (Computer-generated design and manufacturing). Karen and her friends were three girls in a class of forty boys, but that did not bother them at all; From the first moment Keren was enthusiastic about the profession and already at this stage of her life she saw her future in the air force. When the eleventh grade was decided to cancel the Gadna camp, Keren fought for its existence and managed to convince the school principal to carry it out anyway. The importance of contributing to the community stood at the top of her mind and guided her life; The subject of military service appealed to her very much and she saw herself playing a significant role in the army. The Chava Foundation painting, mainly fashion paintings. She was a professional swimmer in the framework of “Maccabi” in “Weisgal” Rehovot and “Masters” Jafora in the city, participated in competitions and won many medals. She was also an amateur artistic photographer. About her childhood and adolescence, her mother says: “She was always energetic, busy, and at five and a half she started to swim, learned from her father to ice skate, was a very active girl who barely slept, she wanted to swallow life. She was surrounded by boys, she wanted to do things, she had the ability and she felt that she could do it. ” Karen finished her matriculation exams when she was seventeen and a half. At the beginning of July 1997, she went on to basic training and then went on to grades 13-14 in the ORT College. In 1999 she completed her studies and was awarded the title “Mechanical Engineer”. Immediately after completing her studies, she enlisted in the Air Force and was sent to a course in the Air Force Technical School in Haifa, which lasted four months, and at the end of which she was placed in the “Yassur” Squadron at the Tel Nof Air Base, where she served as a ground salesman. In 2000, as part of her job, she was chosen by her commanders for a mission to extinguish fires in Greece and was not happy with her, and while she was there, she was interviewed by Galei Tzahal and received media coverage in the Greek press. During her service, Keren successfully passed a number of difficult tests, and this success prompted her to be admitted to an airborne mechanics course – the profession she dreamed of. Her commanders encouraged her and recommended that she be sent for job matching tests. The ambitious fund went to basic training for boys “Rifai 7” and then to the formation, the type of triangles that are made for the pilot class. All of them passed successfully and immediately upon entering the army in January 2001, it was decided to send her to the desired course. Airborne mechanics was the only subsidiary, but this did not prevent her from achieving higher grades than boys. The course lasted about eight months and ended with the wings of an airborne mechanic and a chopra in a parachuting course. At the end of the course she was sent to be certified in the squadron and here she achieved the highest scores among the participants. Keren was the only airborne mechanic in the Squadron squadron ever. After the qualification she returned to the “Night Leaders” Squadron – which became the love of her life. She has excelled in her role and participated in many campaigns in Israel and abroad, most of which can not be told, and the volunteer impulse and the desire to contribute motivated her again and again, as testified by Lt. Col. Yoram, head of aircraft at the Tel Nof base who commanded a fund and recommended her departure for the course : “During the period of command of Keren I found a mature, devoted, professional, caring and caring opponent. Keren has joined every mission, anywhere and anytime. In addition to the professional subject and her military role, Keren donated her free time to the guidance and guidance of youth in her area of residence. After being impressed with her abilities and growing upI recommended that she leave for a course of mechanics flying in the Yasur helicopter, a highly complex helicopter with many complex capabilities in the corps. Keren completed the course with honors and became a unit in the “Yassour” unit, which served as an airborne mechanic, and among three girls who won this position in the Air Force in general. Karen also loved the helicopters and the aviation, the adrenalin that flows through the operations and the squadron’s life, and she took pride in wearing the squadron’s shirt. In 2002 she went abroad to the Galapagos Islands. At the beginning of 2005, after four years in the squadron, Keren decided to leave the military service for law studies at the College of Management. She planned to specialize in aviation law and graduated first year with honors. Despite her hard and demanding studies Keren did not disengage from the squadron and serve as an airborne mechanic. From January 2006 to July 2006, she spent 50 days in reserve duty. For most of the reserve duty she volunteered, and her commanders knew that whenever she was called she would volunteer for the service. Thanks to her dedication and efficiency she was accepted during the summer vacation at the end of the first year of reserve duty under permanent conditions and was supposed to continue until the beginning of the next school year, in the fall of 2006. During the reserve service, the Second Lebanon War broke out. During the fighting, Keren’s squadron was required to carry out operational flights within Lebanon, and Keren demanded to participate in these flights; At first, its commanders objected and allowed it to participate only in operational flights carried out within Israel, but Keren insisted on its desire to fight like everyone else and in that demand went to the squadron commander. Finally, he agreed to join him for an operational flight in Lebanon, which set sail on August 11, 2006. The next day, on August 12, 2006, a fund fell in a battle in southern Lebanon. Keren participated in the massive landing operation of fighters deep into southern Lebanon, encouraged the fighters and helped them during the flight, and received great praise from them. After the landing of the force, about thirty seconds after taking off, the “Yassour” helicopter was hit by a missile fired by Hizbullah. At this event Keren found her death and she is twenty-seven years old. With its members fell to the team of Major Sami Ben Naim, Major Nissan Shalev, Captain Daniel Gomez and Sergeant Major Ron Mashiah. Keren’s body was shirt under fire in the heroic operation of the “Shaldag” and “669” fighters. She was laid to rest on 16 August 2006 at the military cemetery in Rehovot. She left her parents and brother. After her fall she was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant. Her words were engraved on her grave: “Our horn, the smiling, the ambitious, the loving person, the fighter, in our heart forever.” Uri Levy of Meromah described the funeral procession: “Irresistible power and splendor accompanied Keren’s last journey, and more than a thousand parachutists in the regular army and reserves carried her back home.” Keren, a mechanic, was crushed to death along with her four teammates The helicopter, as they landed the paratroopers deep in the area, was hit by an anti-tank missile a few seconds after unloading the force and taking off for another round. , Under direct fire and mortar shells, one on stone, another on stone, scouring in ever-increasing circles and endangering life On the night when the parachutists returned, on a difficult and arduous journey, on the night when an endless column of fighters returned home, Keren returned with them wrapped in a stretcher, carrying them with a sense of mission And holinessParatroopers accompanied Keren on her last trip. A thousand paratroopers brought Keren home, to her parents. It was a heroic funeral procession and no one hid the suffocation in my throat and the dampness in my eyes. … A thousand exhausted and exhausted paratroopers stand by and salute the fund. “Brigadier General Itai, commander of the spear brigade, said:” On a long, arduous journey we took you from the area between Za’abkin and Ya’ar, through the cliffs of Wadi Beit Leif and back to Israel. On your last journey we accompanied you, hundreds of paratroopers on their return from battle. Fighting among fighters as you do, on your way, smiling and the way you fall. Keren, we in the Paratroops say that a warrior continues to live as long as he has a memory. And in your memory – eternal life. “The commanders of Keren say that she was a fearless fighter who fought for the right to go on combat missions.” Keren was diligent and diligent in her hard work, She rejected all the relief given to her, and as a first-class mechanic fighter, she was a symbol and a model for all the squadron men and especially the female soldiers in the squadron, and Keren was very friendly and accepted among those around her. Lieutenant Colonel Danny, commander of the unit, said: “Keren is the first airborne mechanic for me, and she is fighting for the right to go on combat missions and never without any requests for relief. And it is a desire to be the key to success, and it has done so with humility and diligence … Keren has fallen in battle over the right of the State of Israel to exist and live in peace. Brigadier General Amir, the Air Force Chief of Staff, spoke in memory of Keren: “Karen’s image lives in front of my eyes, even today – a figure in flight overalls, wearing a flight helmet and a ponytail with a devilish blond hair sticking out of her in mischief and defiance. The atmosphere of warriors, giant complex and complicated machines, air and ground forces, day and night, in harsh weather: in the heat and cold of the winter and the snowy mountains, in the desert and the sea, in an enemy country and at home. You have opened up new areas and most of all you have marked a path and a path for all those who follow you. I remember a night in the starving Negev, landing in the heart of the desert, joining forces, dust, the noise of engines and the huge pair of rotors of the ‘Ya’ur’ breaking the darkness of the night, the ramp opens and the loading process begins. The pilot of the helicopter looks into the belly of our monster, and I see, with the help of the green night vision device, a small figure moving tirelessly: directing, warning, spurring and harnessing the iron chariots to the metal bird and the ramp closing, In the air on the way to the next destination The dreams were cut off. Your loss: who you were and what you could have been with us. You’re gone and gone. You left a mark, you set a new standard, you taught us that a small body with a ponytail and a helmet is actually a kind of giant that we were privileged to be with. May you be blessed, “wrote Giora, Keren’s direct commander, who signed his letter to a friend:” … You were a wonderful soldier, against an investor and an appraiser, a model airborne mechanic. … I can not forget the smile that characterizes you so much, your strong desire to be equal among equals and your amazing ability to adapt to any situation. … Thank you for being with us in your beautiful years, I wish you were with us down the road. We could do great things”I can not believe you will not call me anymore and that I will not be able to call you, hear your voice, encourage and cope, to know that I have you in my world … I am so I’ve seen all your amazing friends, whom you loved and loved so much, and I heard all the fighters escort you on your last journey home. Sometimes, I imagine you might hear it and smile … I wish. “Gal wrote:” Keren, you shared with me so many thoughts, joys, disappointments and hopes, all about life, the future, love and relationships, career and friends. , Like all of us actually. After all, you were also a sensitive and charming girl, so good and caring for everyone. Misses very much. “An excerpt from a poem written in her memory by Eyal Shmaryahu:” The gold you have made, the blue of your eyes, the kindness of your heart and the laughter of your mouth, the light that looks from you to those around you, / In the place of the good, in the oasis, / a place in which the dwelling of God, / in him the rest, in him the complete peace, “In this place your sun shall shine” – the ray of light “From the song” So When? “Written by Alex and Omar in memory of Keren and those who fell with her:” Between the clouds there is a spark, a spark of light whose beauty will not go away / They touch deep in the heart / A little caress that warms us / In the unknown of the sea, / the great sea // Chorus: And when the day comes? / When will blue be in red? / And when will we stop dreaming? / When will we stop illusions to embroider? // writes with great pain, / tries to understand but no one can / thinks about the broken world, / what do we do now? What will happen tomorrow? “The story of Keren is covered extensively in the print and electronic media.” In the article “It Was a Foundation of Light,” published in the weekly L’Isha, Keren’s mother says: “A lot of people asked me,” How did you let her fly? ” What kind of question is that? Could she have been stopped? You will see the happiness in your eyes. “In memory of Keren, a park will be established at the intersection of Menachem Begin and Gorodetsky Streets in the streets with weather-resistant fitness equipment, and a scholarship will be awarded to high-tech students in conjunction with ORT International and Yad Lebanim. Karen was a ray of light in the Tendler family. She was a sister to Nadav, a daughter who always supports her parents and is a source of pride for them. Her death left a deep void in the heart of her family. This space would be hard to fill, but the legacy she left behind was a consoling fund. This legacy is a legacy of insisting on doing the thing you love without letting people rob you of the possibility of doing so, despite the limitations on the way and smashing stigmas and stereotypes. Her family will cherish her memory for generations to come. “