Daube received the bravery in the Second Lebanon War • Last week began training his brigade for a future battle

• Preparing for battle // Photo: IDF Spokesman

The reserve world is a challenging world. These are people who come wholeheartedly to contribute to the State of Israel, but on the other hand there is no doubt that many times they are not fit or remember to use all the tools optimally. Still, they do a few dozen reserve days a year at best, while the regular fighters carry out drills after drills, and in the operational service, they often work with the same tools they will use in the war.

And this is exactly what Colonel Hanoch Daube, 4th Brigade commander, is about to change. He is the tanker brigade commander of the 4th reserve unit, and as such the spotlight is aimed directly at him. If a Lebanese war in the near or distant future opens, his reservists will be among the first to reach the front, equipped with the best tank in the world.

Last week, the brigades and battalions of the brigade were trained in northern Israel. "Part of it was in the Upper Galilee, to the point where we will cross the border. Every road commander in the area where it will be during a war. On the second day, we traveled on the route of the RAF Patrol Examiner (Northern Command)," relates Col. Daube.

This is the opening shot for a series of exercises that will last for at least the next six months. Because they are reservists, they cannot be brought to the exercises as intensely as they do in the regular army, and so the exercises last for a long time, with the aim of bringing the fighters to a proper level.

"Unlike the regular fighter who does the same thing all the time, here a man chooses to come but his level of competence is lower. That's why we train the commanders massively to produce them the technical wisdom. We constantly refine the basic competency for war. "And the cuts that the whole country is experiencing. We are currently at a point where we recognize the gaps that exist and respond to them in the foreseeable future."

Fighting in Lebanon is no stranger to Daube. On August 8, 2006, during the Second Lebanon War, Daube was commander of the 53rd Battalion Squadron.

Despite the great risk, Dauba set out to rescue the wounded and advanced toward him through three-meter-high terraces and orchards for a 45-minute Daube boy with the tank nonstop and finally a member of the paratroopers force. After raising the paratrooper patrolman with the wounded and the body of a soldier killed in an exchange of fire as a result of a misidentification, the tank moved out of the village and a member of a 669 unit helicopter.

Daube then moved with his team back to the regiment and after a few moments sustained an anti-tank missile in the rear of the tank, preventing the vessel from being able to fire. . Daube pressed the neck of the load and prevented the massive bleeding, saving his life.

Daube was hit in the eye by the heavy smoke. His eyes were sooty and swollen, and to see the direction of travel he lifted his eyelids with his hands. Minutes after stopping the tank, they were rescued by another tank and from there by helicopter to Israel. He was awarded the daring decoration for the rescue operation and the difficult battles.

Today, 14 years after the Second Lebanon War, the officer has been training the reservists for future fighting in Lebanon. "The following training will bring us the level of competence that allows us to deal with the challenge. With reserve fighters you can achieve very good outcomes, because these are mature people who come to work and do not pass the time. They also want to take them to the limit. And a civilian, who only does us good in the end. "