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Weiss, Eyal

Weiss, Eyal


Ben Malka and Avraham, Etty and Niva. He was born on August 21, 1967 in Tel Aviv. Eyal grew up and was educated in Tzahala, attended the Tzahala elementary school in his neighborhood and at the “Ironi Y” high school, and Eyal was a native athlete and an outstanding athlete who spent many hours in basketball and was active in the Maccabi basketball team in Tel Aviv. And the head of a battalion of eighth-graders in the Eitan battalion, Eyal was a respected and respected guide and officer who invested his cadets as if they were about to be drafted soon. When he was in the twelfth grade, his father, the Holocaust survivor, passed away, and Eyal gave his story to his students during Holocaust Remembrance Day, and later, when he traveled with the IDF delegation to Auschwitz, The people of Israel lived, and they all knew that they would not be able to us, because the Israelite keeper would not sleep or sleep. ” A week later, he conducted the IDF Memorial Day ceremony, taking care of the pupils with a thorny yoke – from correct pronunciation to honor to the status and to the fallen, Eyal went to summer camp in July 1985 for one day and the next day joined the IDF. In the best tradition of the Scouts, he chose to “fulfill” and joined the Nahal group, “Etan”, which was designated for Kibbutz Ketura, where Eyal took part in a commanding course for the Nahal Brigade, “To. For years, Eyal would come to his scouts on his rare Shabbat, trying to convince his fans that service in the Nahal paramilitary brigade could be a glorious military service. Eyal began his regular service in August 1988. He held a number of positions in the Nahal Brigade: a squad commander, a platoon commander, a company commander and a platoon commander, until he was appointed commander of the Nahal Brigade . He was also a commander of a company in the officers’ school, a company commander in Sayeret Matkal, and a deputy commander of the Hiram Brigade, the eastern brigade on the northern border. The Chief of the General Staff and the appreciation of the Prime Minister, Eyal took care to take time out and travel in Israel and abroad – in Africa, South America, the Far East and Europe. During his shorter vacations he was active in sports, especially in triathlon. As part of the service program he went on to acquire a higher education at Achva College, where he met Shir, a daughter of Zichron Yaakov, whom he married in 1999. The couple lived in Zichron Yaakov, and in June 2001 their daughter, Hoshen, was born. In the last year of his life, Eyal and his soldiers went to hundreds of operations throughout Judea and Samaria. According to OC Central Command Yitzhak Eitan, the unit contributed to the arrest of about 1,800 wanted persons during the events in the territories. All this without casualties. In the past few months, Weiss, as the military has called it, was engaged in the establishment of a reserve battalion in the “Duvdevan” unit. Eyal has a personality of extraordinary strength and charisma, and a natural ability to carry people to every task. The seal he left behind in every position was so prominent and deep that anyone in his vicinity could not forget him. A man and a gentleman, a tough and a knight, admired as a commander, a true friend, a leader, a symbol and a model, but above all a man you knew could be trusted with his eyes closed When he said “Follow me!” Lt. Col. Eyal Weiss fell in operational activity in the village of Sidha, near Tulkarm, on the day of February 15, 2002. The bellIn the village of Sidha, Eyal designed himself and of course commanded her personally. An IDF bulldozer was demolishing the house of the wanted man who was caught in this action, while Eyal stood nearby and spoke with his soldiers and the brigade commander. The top of the house fell on the wall behind it, and the wall collapsed on a deer. Eyal was the most senior IDF casualty in the al-Aqsa Intifada, aged thirty-four and was followed by a woman and a seven-month-old daughter, a mother and two sisters, who was laid to rest in the military section of the Zichron Yaakov cemetery. As a tradition of summer, a triathlon competition in Tel Aviv, an association founded in the name of Eyal is organizing the competition, and the Tzahala Scouts are taking an active part in it: “He was our Eyal, and we remember him every day with love and endless longing “He said.

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