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The reserve fighters have been waiting for this training for three years.

The corona crisis did not stop them either

Hundreds of soldiers from the Carmeli Brigade went down to Tze'elim, leaving behind a family in isolation and businesses in collapse, only to return to fitness.

The chief of staff joined the training, talked to the fighters and made it clear that he would trust them after they trained.

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Amir Bohbot

Saturday, September 26, 2020, 10:00 p.m.

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In the video: IDF training in the IDF Corona (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Colonel Erez Alkabetz recently signed two weeks of training at the Tze'elim Land Training Center together with the Carmeli Reserve Brigade of the Northern Command, which he commanded.

The fighters trained in an outline that simulates fighting Hezbollah after three years without training that led to the impairment of their fitness.

Despite the corona crisis and fears of the virus spreading, more than a thousand reservists were recruited for training.

The brigade set the recruitment target for 70% of all soldiers.

In practice, 78%, despite the financial difficulty, had sick family members or children left without educational frameworks.

"Our training was postponed twice: once because of resources and a second time because of the corona," Colonel Alkabetz told Walla! NEWS. The brigade commander did not hide the facts, noting that "there are departments here that have not fired weapons for three years. A soldier who does not shoot for three years "He is in low capacity. The chief of staff, the commander of the land arm and the commander of the Northern Command understood that this was very important, so this training happened."

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"They come with dedication, high motivation and a spirit of volunteerism."

Reserve training during the Corona period (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

In the absence of a state budget, the IDF has difficulty determining a training graph as part of the multi-year plan. Due to the situation in the army, priorities had to be changed, such as postponing the establishment of training bases for the Nahal and Givati ​​divisions and rehabilitating additional training infrastructure. Air Force and Land Forces.

The corona was also joined by the budgetary difficulty, with the fear of reservists entering the military system and infecting regular servicemen and soldiers.

Alkabetz praised the reservists who showed up for training.

He said, "They are very serious people. Even when they come by law and order they come with dedication, high motivation and a spirit of volunteerism. Their message is simple: 'If you want us to go in to fight we need to be fit and to be fit we need to train.'

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The IDF is considering canceling large-scale training after the number of patients in its ranks reached a peak

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Reserve training during the Corona period (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

"When the chief of staff comes to the reserve brigade it sends a message, it shows that it is important to him"

Towards the end of the training, Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi arrived in Tze'elim, and accompanied the brigade in one of the exercises under heavy heat load. "It was after a night with steep-track firing (rockets - AB) on Israel and a lot of noise," Alkabetz described.

The chief of staff could have canceled the visit, but he arrived.

The warriors greatly appreciated.

"When the chief of staff arrives at the reserve brigade, it sends a message, it shows that it is important to him that he believes in land maneuvering."

The fighters said that Kochavi received an overview from the commanders of the Land Training Center and the Carmeli Brigade, asked about the operational plans and then put earplugs in them and joined them inside the built-up area, until the moment of the assault on the targets.

The training bridged gaps of the ground forces in the reserve and included practice in built-up areas using live fire with small arms, tanks and means of sabotage by engineering forces.

"He saw the 'Negevists' firing. I kept showing him the tanks on the right and left, they fired shells as our forces advanced. He saw the engineering fighters firing explosives, and also remarked to us. This training produces a sense of capability," the Carmeli Brigade commander said. .

"It sends a message."

Chief of Staff Kochavi and Col. Alkabetz (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The chief of staff ended the visit with a meeting with commanders, officers and fighters of the brigade, during which he demanded their safety and even inquired when wearing masks during training. Shaked even shared the difficulty of his soldiers in leaving a wife and children in isolation and getting to training anyway.After

him he was chosen to speak to me, who according to the reservists attracted the attention of the chief of staff.

"My eldest son and I fell ill in Corona. We were in isolation for 50 days without hospitalization, but with symptoms," he said.

Kochavi was interested in the well-being and health of his family members.

"Chief of Staff, do you trust us?"

At the end of the conversation, the chief of staff asked if anyone else was interested in speaking. Captain Yitzhak Friedman, a reservist in his 20s with a long brown beard, raised his hand. Friedman is the son of the Rebbe of Pashkan, Brigadier General Hoshea Friedman Ben Shalom, who previously served as chief reserve officer and brigadier general Carmeli.

Friedman Jr. simply asked the chief of staff: "Do you trust us?".

According to the reservists, some of those present at the conversation smiled due to their acquaintance with the opinion officer, but others feared that this time it was a little too much.

"Why do you ask?", Kochavi replied in amazement.

Capt. Friedman responded directly: "Because we are not training."

"I'm full of appreciation. It's not obvious at all."

Stars (Photo: Reuven Castro)

IDF combat records include reserve forces, but they will be sent to the battlefield only after they are trained

Alongside the chief of staff sat the commander of the General Staff's Brigade, Maj. Gen. Moti Baruch, who is also responsible for the training and training in the land arm, the commander of the land training center, Brigadier General David Zini and Brigadier General Carmeli, Alkabetz

Sources who took part in the conversation stressed that some of them were moving uncomfortably at that moment, but Kochavi took the opportunity to present his doctrine to the reservists.

"I am appreciative and really mean every word of mine. Pass it to all soldiers of the brigade who came to train in view of the situation at home, at work and in Israeli society in general. It does not make any sense to me," explained the Chief of Staff.

Then explained that the IDF's combat descriptors include The reserve forces, and when he sends them to the battlefield he will do so only after they have been trained.

"This is a moral issue," Kochavi said, admitting that there are quite a few gaps in the reserve that will be examined in a new and adapted training model.

"We mean what we say in deeds - not words - just so I can trust you."

"The IDF is being taken down to the street." Kochavi in ​​reserve training during the Corona period (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Later in the conversation, Kochavi focused on the issues of the IDF's land maneuver and multi-armed capabilities. From time to time he had to interrupt his words due to the sounds of fighter jets hovering in the air. "The noise you heard now, you will hear it much more in war.

You will see more IAF bombs like the amount of shells in the tank, "he said." Our motto at the General Staff is: "Take the IDF down to the street." There will be much more fire for the platoon commander. So that you are not alone on the "street," Intelligence, more air force. "

According to the reservists, the chief of staff gave significant weight in the conversation to the new goal director, who uses artificial intelligence to produce an unprecedented range of targets for unprecedented attack that would reach the platoon headquarters level. As a replacement for the American Lao missiles, and will soon also purchase suicidal skimmers called Maoz, which have the ability to penetrate through the windows of buildings.

Cardboard goals - a thing of the past

Alongside the praise, Kochavi did not spare the commanders criticism of the training.

He clarified that assaulting a line of cardboard figure targets in an open space is a thing of the past, and today emphasis should be placed on figure targets in built-up areas.

"There is good control of the forces here," the chief of staff complimented. "I am not impressed by the music (the noise of the shooting and the shells - AB), but whether we hit or did not hit the targets."

"For the fighters on the ground, it was no longer a quick visit, but a tour that lasted for long hours during which Kochavi delved into the quality of the commanders, the scope and methods of training, and gaps in the implementation of General Staff processes." "From Alkabetz." In the last six months, the chief of staff has led a revolution in assessing the situation - with the competence of the reserve divisions, the weapons and the navies.

I also believe he came to see if what he is aiming for really happens down below. "

"There is more work to be done, but the Carmeli Brigade is ready for war."

Reserve training during the Corona period (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Alkabetz symbolizes the generation of IDF brigade commanders who did not experience the security zone in Lebanon, but absorbed the Palestinian fire in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip during the second intifada. In September of that year, he closed the gates of the border fence in Kerem Shalom.

After less than a year, he was promoted to the Gaza Division as commander of the Golani Engineering Company (GALHAN) for Operation Summer Rains after the abduction of Gilad Shalit. north and entered into the second Lebanon War, maneuvered to Bint Jbeil and led a rescue operation of battalion 51 wounded in a bloody battle with Hezbollah fighters.

in summer 2014, he commanded the 13th battalion of the Golani Brigade in Operation hard Saja'iya a rock. the last two years is Commander of the Carmeli Reserve Brigade of the Northern Command, based on fighters from the 13th Battalion, most of whom he knows personally and some of whom he fights with.

Three circle closures

Colonel Alkabetz recently completed his role as Brigadier General Carmeli.

He continues to command the Tactical Training Center in Tze'elim and awaits its next deployment.

At the end of the visit, Alkabetz and Kochavi sat down for a four-way conversation.

"I told the chief of staff - on my personal level, a number of circles are closing," he said. "The first, in relation to training as a brigade commander.

Terminate a position after the entire division has trained and promoted as a service to the good.

I'm glad I got to coach a division.

Closing the second circle is the command of the Carmeli Brigade, which is based on the 13th Battalion, so I know most of the fighters in the brigade.

The third circle is my replacement, Col. Adi Ganon who was my SMGD in Operation Eitan Cliff.

"He is happy that he is replacing me, there is nothing more worthy of him.

" "You have to invest a lot in the world of reserves, it is not one training, there is a lot more work to be done," he concluded. "At the same time, the Carmeli brigade is ready for war.

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