Moshe Levy is one of only 40 fighters who have received the Medal of Heroism since the establishment of the state - the highest of the signals given by the IDF. soul".
Levy meets all of these criteria, and more.
What he did in Sinai was an act of supreme heroism.
The fact that he survived is a miracle, no less.
Before the Yom Kippur War, when he was 28, he crushed his knee, and a few days before the outbreak of hostages took off the cast.
He was not drafted, but it was clear to him that his place was with his comrades in the field.
"I saw that people were being recruited, and no one called me," Levy says in an interview to be published in the Yom Kippur supplement of "Israel Today."
"I stayed with the old men. I told myself it was not a business, and I decided to stand up independently to reach my friends at the front.
"I limped with my foot, because only on Rosh Hashanah did I have my cast removed, so I could not completely walk. My wife came with the girl on her hands to the synagogue, and asked me where I was going. I told her I was going to war. 'But you were not called,' she said. She said. I answered her: "In war you should not call me, in war I go alone."
On October 15, the company to which Levy belonged received a call to help rescue a force ambushed by an Egyptian commando on the "plastic axis" (a road built specifically to allow the passage of a heavy vehicle, one side of which was the sea and the other side of swamps; To the stronghold of Budapest, which was the only one that did not fall to the Egyptians then.
Levy's company set out in the direction of the stronghold.
Nine snails, a total of about 90 soldiers, all reservists. He commanded another 11 soldiers, who sat densely in the snail.
"Everyone lowered their heads. We did not see anything until we reached the scene of the collision, and then we suddenly saw two burnt trucks and the dead and wounded. As we reached them, they opened fire on us with missiles."
Levi's caterpillar absorbed the first missile in the chain. "The Egyptians began firing at the side of the vessel.
It was clear to me that we had to get up and shoot so we could evacuate, before the next volley arrived.
I got up and said to my sergeant, 'I do not know how long I will last.
"As soon as I open fire, you will attack."
In an interview with him, Levy tells in detail about the moment he lost his hand and how, despite his difficult condition and impossible conditions, he continued to function and saved the lives of many of his friends.
The full interview - tomorrow in the Yom Kippur supplement of "Israel Today"