Son of Judith (Johnny) and Aaron. He was born on the 16th of Tevet 5748 (16.1.1988) in Israel. Brother to Joella, Hui, and Eliana. Uriel was the only child among three sisters. His parents were among the veteran residents of the settlement of Efrat, where he grew up and studied in the religious elementary school “Ashei Chayil”. He went on to junior high and finished high school at the Neve Shmuel high school. He was a quiet, gentle, modest boy who did not criticize anything and never complained or complained. Full of love for every man, his face seemed his eternal, mischievous smile, and his eyes always expressed kindness and joy. During his leisure time, he worked in various sports: he jumped high and received a certificate of excellence, played tennis, frisbee, participated in the swimming team, and won medals in soccer league matches. Demanded of himself excellence and perseverance in every field. He liked to study religious subjects even in his spare time, and in high school he was awarded the Gemara Prize. But despite his excellence in his studies and social involvement, Uriel maintained modesty and humility. During his studies he volunteered as part of an education program for autistic children, and in the Yeshiva High School volunteering project he undertook a challenging task: adopting a patient at the Kfar Shaul psychiatric hospital in Jerusalem. Once every two weeks Uriel would come to him regularly, take care of him with devotion, study with him and bring him books he loved to read. “Uriel liked to stay with the rest of the boarding school in his homework, movies and other occupations, and he continued to participate, despite the fact that he lived very close … It’s no secret that Uriel had a sharp mind … Countless I was not the only one who enjoyed Uriel’s patience … The thoroughness and the investment characterized all his ways … towards the first wedding in our class … We had many rehearsals for the dance lessons Uriel was talented at juggling, a talent that took a very significant place in rehearsals and in the wedding itself … ” Yaakov Fisher, the rabbi of the Neve Shmuel Yeshiva, said: “Our Uriel was conspicuous in not being conspicuous … as if he was afraid to disturb, he would not take a place, but he took up a place, a permanent place and an important place. You are entering the classroom and you know, Uriel is there, listening with curiosity and alertness, absorbing the learning, with a tremendous talent accompanied by a great and consistent effort … a place of love and acceptance for all the friends … a true tzadik who does not even know that he is one To himself … innocence and integrity, nobility and simplicity in the beginning, and the fear of God is pure. He is a gentle, sensitive and humble man … a combination of great tenderness, strength, strength of faith and devotion to Torah and mitzvot. “After completing his high school studies, Uriel continued to the Har Etzion hesder yeshiva in Alon Shvut and was a model student. , Noted that “Uriel was a scholar … He studied in depth, thorough, curious and thirsty opinion … His time was meticulous and calculated … He did not cancel his time and did not stay outside the yeshiva … He loved his lessons and his rabbis, loved his friends and was devoted to them , And the younger ones who helped him and studied with him. And his friends and friends responded to him with love… Happy in his lot, with a good look at everything and grateful. It seems that most of all was evident in the deep fear of heaven … with an innocent faith. “As part of the hesder yeshiva, he was drafted into the Armored Corps on July 31, 2009, and during his vacations he returned to the yeshiva to study. The canned goods for everyone, made sure his friends ate properly, and then ate himselfHe had made his roommates tickle, and he had found the time to help others get orders and made sure the whole ward was ready to the smallest detail. And when others complained about the heat and the commanders, Uriel would quietly open wafers or mummy cookies and generously pamper his friends. The love of learning Torah also accompanied him in the army and he studied “Daf Yomi” consistently from the blue booklet or shelf he had taken for himself and was always ready in his pocket. Even on the journey home he studied Gemara, or after exercises in the middle of the night, studied in the dark with a flashlight; And on Saturday he completed what was not enough during the week. On Tisha B’Av, though he did not like to speak in front of an audience, he stood before the whole company and gave a shiur, as requested. After completing his basic training, Uriel began serving in the “Bezeq” company of the “Sufa” Battalion 53. He was a motivated and well-suited soldier who loved the army and loved the tank. A member of the service told of Uriel’s responsibility as soon as he arrived at the battalion: “They only arrived at seven in the morning and he was already ‘knocking the pins in the tank.'” On the seventeenth of Tammuz we had time to rest because of the fast We were all in the rooms, and Uriel was covered with grease, taking care of the tank: ‘There is a battalion commander’s order, you have to prepare the tank.’ “The same sense of mission that Uriel had in his friend David Yehoshua Goldreich added:” Even when we got back from three in the morning, , There is no power for anything – Uriel prepares juice and water and goes to the tank. He took upon himself to do the most annoying things and did not complain … “Jonah, his friend and his father, said:” Uriel and I were wrong and learned from each other all the way, and most of all I learned tricks and professional tips from him. Uriel was a strong guy, and it was relatively easy to push artillery shells. On trips, he always took the jerrycan – the heaviest Fakhl – and never let others replace it, and really he tried again and again to help the guys with the stretcher while still carrying the water jerryk. He stopped and helped pull the guys under the gurney forward … In the tank he always made sure there were bottles of water … He did not shout or argue. Not complaining, helping. Works happily. Uriel was the guy who always carried the jerrycan on all the trips, and refused to be replaced. “Uriel shared his family’s experiences and difficulties with the service, and his mother kept in constant contact:” I asked him to call me and he was a good boy, Or he would say, ‘We are going out to the field, I will not be able to call for a few days …’ “At first he thought that because of a lack of allocations there was no need to go to the commanders’ course and was happy to be able to return to the yeshiva and study Torah. Rabbi Yaakov Fisher spoke about his student: “He is the last guy you would expect to see sitting in a tank and must be commanding him … And Uriel also excelled in the armored corps of the commander. I asked him about it on the eve of the departure for the commanders’ course. He replied that they said he was suitable, and asked him to leave so he goes. We are accustomed to the toughness required of the commander, to firm and perhaps a little proud, to the authority that comes from above and takes orders. “Uriel completed a tank commander course and in the last four weeks of his life commanded the Merkava tank,” Mark 3. “Captain Ido Levi, commander of Company B, Testified to Uriel’s excellent performance and stability: “Be happy and happy with the role he played with and with the people and friends who surrounded him on the day and in the small hours of the night … Uriel was a quiet and cool man. A human beingSarah felt comfortable and happy … radiated kindness, warmth and empathy. A man and a commander, inquisitive and inquisitive, who wanted and aspired to improve in everything he did and invested all his life in the role and responsibility he was given, who truly believed in the importance of his immense responsibility as commander of a team of fighters. Loved his fighters, cared for them more than himself, and was always available to all their requests. A man, a commander and a friend who always helped those around him, no matter how familiar they were with him … His comrades knew that they could always contact him with any request … Everyone around him appreciated, respected and loved him … “Hagai Diamandi added: His friends in the platoon … did it with joy … and got to know and form deep ties of friendship and friendship with other friends who are not religious and not exactly like him. “His commanders describe a warm, attentive commander whose authority stemmed from their participation in the mission: Told the story of an exercise in which in the middle of the day, at the height of the heat, the drinking water in the tank ran out.The team was very tired, and Uriel gave up his rest and walked a mile, The tank driver, Nathaniel Uzan, said goodbye to Uriel, saying: “In my brief acquaintance with you, I saw you as a guide and a person whom I must learn from. Your endless peace of mind and joy were my guiding light … You were not only a good friend but also a top-ranking professional commander. You knew the purpose and the task of our exercises and flowed with the changes that occurred during the exercise. “We were friends before we became our commander, and yet he and the crew took care of everything in the tank. Not by shouting or by pressure, but by the way we should. There was a big ‘together’ in our team … “On August 5, 2009, the Armored Brigade’s 188th Brigade, where Uriel served, participated in the field training course for battalion commanders and battalion commanders, and it was four and a half in the morning when several tanks had already crossed the bridge Tel Shifun in the southern Golan Heights, in order to enable the crossing of an antitank missile that simulates a combat zone. But when tank 3A, commanded by Uriel, began crossing the bridge, he strayed from it, fell and turned into a channel. As part of the procedure, Uriel and his head stood outside the armored vehicle. He did not lose his temper and ordered his team a quick “rolling drill”, but he himself did not have time to put his head in and close a shelf within a few seconds. Uriel’s gunner, Arad Waldenberg, described this in an eulogy to his commander: “In your last command, you saved my life, one of your team members, which shows your quality as a tank commander. Sergeant Uriel Peretz Liberant fell in operational activity on the day of Tu B’Av 5769 (5.8.2009). He was twenty and a half when he fell. He was laid to rest at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. Survived by his parents and three sisters. Three soldiers were lightly wounded in an accident in which Uriel found his death. His father said: “Uriel liked to travel with his family and friends and especially loved the Golan, and there is no route he did not know, and there he fell.” Daniel Roach, Uriel’s brother-in-law, said that Uriel was planning to return to the yeshiva where he studied, “Har Etzion” in Alon Shvut: “Uriel was an outstanding student, very analytical and planned to study exact sciences.” The battalion commander, Lt. Col. Gal Shohami, eulogized him: “… Uriel, we had the privilege to accept you as a tank commander, but in this brief but intense and demanding period, you have discovered your glory, first as a person. “Quiet water penetrates deeply” and as such has a great influence on your immediate surroundings …A commander imbued with a sense of mission to the people of Israel and the Land of Israel. You have loved your soldiers with true love and you have taken care of the truth … Your team will function as a model. A team of fighters, crystallized high and cool. You will know, Uriel, that you have something to be proud of. “His friend, Yigal Goldberg, also told him:” You are so special and a great person … people who are so different from each other consider themselves to be your good friends. You had this special quality, your tremendous love for people who just managed to connect them all to you … I would say that you were staring at you. It’s so hard to be with you and not to say: ‘What a saint’ or ‘some genius’ … because you were just like that, but I know how much you did not like it and how much you did not want to hear it, so I apologize for all those times. “Uriel, I still hear you humming your favorite song, ‘Go, the Great God,’ while you finish the two verses and one translation, of that day on the French bed. I still remember you telling me to take the tefillin to the tank. You told me what it was like to put tefillin on the first rays of the sun while the engineering force dismantled the bridge … You knew what was required of a commander. How much did you invest in the tank and did not go to sleep until the controls were ready. In training and training, you sat with the platoon commander, with Bashan, until you knew that you were ready for the soldiers … You have invested soldiers in your team, in the good atmosphere you have … just as if they were your children … “Yossi Retig wrote and composed a song in memory of Uriel … “As a part of the commemoration activities, a holy Ark was dedicated to his memory.” “I will not get used to it. Yeshivat Har Etzion publishes two daily study books – “To Follow His Ways” – and plans to publish a book on Tu B’Av in memory of him. And the booklet “Flash – I was or dreamed a dream,” organized by the Bezeq Company, was dedicated to his memory. His family established a website in memory of Uriel, called “Free Love” – www.urielliwerant.co.il.
