After a Facebook group flooded the stories, Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff announced that they would consider giving signal to fighters • "It's time to give them recognition," Bennett said

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Defense Minister Naftali Bennett and Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi on Thursday announced the establishment of a team to testify on a formal signal to fight the Lebanese security band in the 1980s and 1990s. The initiative came following the opening of a Facebook story called "Stories from Lebanon - What Happened in Stations" The events that took place during the IDF's control of the Security Strip.

The Facebook group gained tremendous circulation, including the meeting between a fighter and his friend, whom he thought had been dead for 23 years. Jordan Neufeld wrote on Facebook that he was looking for details about a guy who served with him in the MOS course, and to his surprise, a soldier, Hagai Ovadia, replied that he was alive.

"It's a crazy thing," Neufeld told "Israel Today." He said: "I remember there was no way to go to the funeral. We may have been in security employment elsewhere. Ever since then, I have lived with the feeling that he was dead."

Minister Bennett noted that the decision came following a letter sent to him Wednesday night by representatives of the fighters in the security band who wanted to recognize a stay in the security band as a campaign from one of its own systems.

"It is time to give recognition to fighters and casualties in the Lebanese security campaign. In a joint initiative by the chief of staff and mine, we today concluded the establishment of a team to test the granting of a formal signal to combat security in Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s. The IDF begins its headquarters work on the issue. ”It should be noted that one of the fighters who served in the security force is Bennett himself, as a fighter in the General Staff Patrol and the Magellan unit. 

Chairman of the Organization of Boys' Hand Eli Ben Shemesh welcomed the announcement. "For this white hand organization, this is the closure of an important circle. For many years, the organization worked to give a signal and there for the period when thousands of IDF fighters fought in the penetrating posts and on the Lebanese border and became the protective wall of the northern residents. There has been a series of discussions with former Defense Ministers and heads of symbolic committees and ceremonies in order to bring about the important recognition, but this has rejected the issue. "

"On the 20th anniversary of the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon, it is right and just to call for the difficult period in which many fighters fell on Lebanese soil and on the way to it, a period when many young people witnessed a debilitating and scanty war reality. This is the time to salute the thousands of warriors, the best builders of this land who have been defending the homeland. In this way, we will salute and honor those who have fallen and the many who carry with them the memory of that era. Living heroes who walk around among us carrying the Lebanon scar on their hearts. 

"Yad Lebanim also worked to establish a state monument and museum that will tell the story of battles, posts, fighting routines, spirits, evils and societies born in those positions across state lines, the security strip and across the border. Whites sees himself as a partner in the IDF's think tank and has much to contribute to the success of the move. Straighten Power for Craft You share an important historical move that salutes an entire generation of brave warriors. "