"It was the peak of the peach season. We had no feeling of impending disaster."
Lieutenant Shahar Guy was killed north of Sidon on the second day of the Lebanon War when a shell hit his tank.
The next day, in Tire, Sergeant Zvi Wolf was also killed, an immigrant who was adopted by the family.
The mother, who lost them both: "I miss the miss."
On the 40th anniversary of the war, bereaved families return to the last encounter with their fallen loved ones
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Yifat Rosenberg
03/05/2022
Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 16:30 Updated: 20:53
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The last time Nurit Guy saw her son,
Lt. Shahar Guy
, it was at their home on Kibbutz Nir Banim.
"Shahar was at home for a few days to help me with the farm. It was the peak of the peach season. There was tension in the air," she says.
She remembers that the conversation was close.
"We were close. We talked about almost everything. We did not know it was a last meeting, there was no feeling of impending disaster."
Shahar was born to Nurit and Bar Kochba Guy, who was a colonel and a fighter in unit 101. Numbers that he liked to walk, and to drive.
As the son of farmers, he even aspired to return to the economy.
He enlisted in the Armored Corps, completed an officers' course and commanded recruits.
Then also the flower of his relationship with his girlfriend, Shoshi.
"He was always smiling," she says of her son, describing him as a good friend and a good boy.
"I did not remember him seriously. His friends told me that when he worked on the tank he was very serious."
"We were close, we talked about almost everything."
Shahar Guy (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
"We did not know it was a last meeting."
Nurit Guy (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Nurit then took under her wing a new immigrant from the United States named
Zvi Wolf
who came to the farm to help when Shahar enlisted, and he and Shahar became close friends.
Wolf - the son of Shirley and Marvin-Bob - grew up in Hollywood.
Following a visit to Israel as a teenager, he dreamed of immigrating to Israel - and so he decided to do after the attack on the "bloody bus" on the coastal road.
He enlisted at the age of 23, and like Shahar, was also drafted into the Armored Corps, and became an artilleryman.
"I told him: you do not have to enlist, you are American. But if you decide - then this is your home," she recalls.
"He returned to the United States for a month and isolated himself. His parents said he did not leave the room. He thought and thought. He returned a month later. He and Shahar enlisted two days apart and met at the rookie base."
On Saturday morning before the outbreak of the Lebanon War, June 5, Zvi prepared pancakes for the whole family.
"He pampered us all," Nurit recalls.
Which she described as "a kind and pleasant fellow, who was a member of the household. I loved his parents very much."
"A nice and pleasant guy."
Zvi Wolf (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Sister Edna and mother Nurit Guy, with a photo of Zvi and Shachar (Photo: Reuven Castro)
When the war broke out, Shahar, 21, commanded a tank division from the 460th Brigade, which entered Lebanon.
On the second day of the war, north of Sidon, they were called to the aid of another force, which was attacked by terrorists.
A shell fell on the tank at dawn and he was killed.
Except for his parents, he is survived by a brother and two sisters.
Esther Streit Wurzl's book, "Dawn," was written about his story.
Sergeant Zvi Wolf also immigrated to Lebanon with his armored battalion, from the 401st Brigade.
The day after Shahar's death, they entered the city of Tire.
Then a missile hit the tank, and he too was killed, at the age of 25. Nurit says that his death was announced two days after the announcement of Shahar's death, because he was initially considered missing.
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"Always smile."
Shahar Guy (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"I told him: if you decide to enlist - then this is your home."
Zvi Wolf (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
Do you imagine what it would be like if they were here today?
"You do not enter this place. For me Shahar remains what he was. A young man, ready for any help. Sometimes I see his friends - 60 years old. I can not imagine 60 - year - old Shahar. I can not imagine myself," she says, " "I can not sit him in our world today. Not that I would not want to, but ... I miss the loss. He missed his life."
She also carries Zvi's memory through her volunteer activities.
"Thanks to him, I joined an organization that takes care of lone soldiers. By chance I encountered a last descendant, I was on a trip and decided I wanted to commemorate all the lone soldiers killed from the War of Independence to this day. There were no lists. All of them, but I located more than 2,000. Some of them have no date of fall. At least I commemorate them as part of the activities of the Achi Association - to make accessible the names of the lone soldiers, who will remember them and light a candle for them.
We also need to remember those who do not know, "she says.
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