"Uri said to me: 'I have already seen too much.' In his silence there was more than any speech."

Days before he was about to be released, Lieutenant Uri D'Angeli set out to back up a General Staff patrol force - but his tank capsized. His sister: "Everything could have looked different.

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Yifat Rosenberg

03/05/2022

Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 16:30 Updated: 18:29

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Lieutenant Uriel (Uri) D'Angeli

was a rebellious man, but from the last conversation with him - before he fell in the Lebanon War - his sister, Shoshi D'Angeli Kendanian, remembers mostly silences.

"It was before Yom Kippur," she says, recalling Uri's hard feelings after weeks of fighting. "His battalion was in Lebanon for a very, very long time. "Friends of the battalion. I felt for Uri that the horrors of the war had seeped into him. They beat him. Suddenly something changed in him."

On the eve of Yom Kippur, she received a phone call from him.

"The conversation was more silence than a conversation. Uri was a man and a rebel. This time there was more silence than any speech," she says.

Uri told her not to come for the holiday because he volunteered to stay, even though he was at the end of his service.

"I've seen too much, and I'm 'done with him," he told her.

"I had a feeling he was talking about the Blessed One, and I told him: with Gd you do not end, and despite the terrible things you have seen it is precisely the matter, that this dialogue is not over." He replied to her: "Explain it to the parents.

I can not stand it.

"" I had a feeling of terrible pain.

Terrible sorrow.

That was the last call. "

"Many times with death people increase, but it should not have increased."

Uriel (Uri) D'Angeli (Photo: courtesy of the family)

Uriel (Uri) D'Angeli, son of Litzia and Elio, was born on the 29th of Tammuz 5745 (July 24, 1960) in Haifa, to a family who immigrated to Israel from Italy.

He was described as a naughty boy full of the joy of life, and was a member of the Scout movement.

He loved the sea, and used to swim, fish and surf, and even wrote songs.

He was drafted and decided to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Shaul, who was an officer in the Armored Forces, and held positions in the Armored School as a lieutenant colonel, lieutenant colonel and deputy lieutenant colonel. .

On October 14, 1982, a few days before the date of his release, his battalion went out to support the force of a General Staff patrol. On this trip the tank capsized, and Uri was killed

.

They said to him: 'D'Angeli, you see - over.

You thought you would be killed and not killed, and here you go. '

And he was actually buried on the day of his release, "says his sister.

"We were very good friends."

Shoshi D'Angeli Kendanian, sister of Uriel D'Angeli, who fell in the Lebanon War (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Can you imagine what would have happened if he had been here today?

"I go through a whole life with people who tell me every minute: 'Wait, you are Uri's sister.' Even 40 years later. It's like every moment he says: I'm here, I'm present.

"When he was killed a great light went out in the world, and I say this in truth. He could not be indifferent. He was attractive, had a sex appeal. He could be a man full of great tasks. He could engage in the professions of marketing, buying, selling - "Tasks of contact with people. I wish he had children of his own, because everything could have looked different."

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"He could have been a man full of great tasks."

D'Angeli (Photo: Courtesy of the family)

"I as a whole sister would go through a completely different life. Bereaved siblings push the pain because they are forced to keep smiling, to live, because they need to support the parents, to accompany the pain of a parent who has been cut off from the child," she added.

"If he had stayed alive, our life would probably have been like the life of a good Italian family. Lots of laughs, noises. My eldest son probably would not have been called Uriah, maybe a guy or something. I could have lived an easier life."

She said, "Many times with death people are magnified, but he should not have been magnified. He was wild and mischievous. A wonderful guide, with strengths. The things he touched and believed in - he did with all his heart."

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