"Terrible personal price": The general who commanded the Battle of Bynet Jabal returns to Lebanon

Hundreds of civilians came over the weekend to observe the Lebanese border on Mount Dov in honor of Remembrance Day.

One of those present was the head of the IDF, Yaniv Asur, who fought in the Second Lebanon War as commander of the 51st Battalion in the Golan Heights. "Remembrance Day is not a personal day, it is a national day," he said.

Amir Bohbot

03/05/2022

Tuesday, 03 May 2022, 01:34 Updated: Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 10:18

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The head of the manpower division, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asur, who led the fighting in the battle of Bynet Jabal during the Second Lebanon War as the 51st Battalion in the Golani Brigade, arrived last Friday to observe Mount Dov on the Lebanese border, as part of the "For the Fallen" national project. In the meeting and tour, hundreds of civilians, along with the third officer of the late Captain Dov Rodberg who fell in a battle with terrorists in 1970 and the mountain was named after him, came to hear a value discourse about stories of battles and those who fell in military service.

A decade ago, he stood under the Hadas outpost and told about the casualties from the 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade who were killed in the battle of Bint Jabal during the Second Lebanon War: Major Roy Klein, Capt. Alex Schwartzman, Lt. Amichai Merhavia, First Sergeant Idan Cohen, First Sergeant Shimon Dahan First Ohad Klausner, Sergeant Assaf Nimar and Sergeant Shimon Adga, and on his command, Corporal Uzi Peretz, who was killed on the Lebanese border in 2005. "Memorial Day is not a personal day, it is a national day of remembrance, Remember that there is a price to pay for communism, "said Assur.

"I hope that history will do justice to those who decided to respond forcefully and in the way we responded to the abduction," he said. "Finally, "Even today, when Nasrallah speaks and builds power, he does not leave the bunker."

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"A commander is the one who goes at the head of the camp."

A decade on Mount Dov (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

A decade defined the figure of the commander in his eyes.

"The one who sees himself as the one who heads the camp," he explained.

"When you'm mm you'm taught that you eat last and go first.

You do not have to say after me, just when you go - they follow you. "

Remembrance Day, as defined by a decade, is the day on which the personal memory merges with the national." .

On Remembrance Day the whole nation stops, bows its head and remembers all its falls.

This is a day when the personal story of each of the fallen of this country is the story of us all, the national story.

I always talk about the personal price which is terrible, "continued a decade," for example, the heavy price we paid in the Second Lebanon War.

Every soldier, every officer, every commander, the whole world. "

For example, a decade ago, while studying in England, a terrorist attack broke out in Jerusalem.

"When they opened the day, they said they wanted to participate in 'the deep sorrow of Yaniv from Israel because of another terrorist attack in Jerusalem.' Us to gas chambers. "

For a decade, he shared his personal memory experience with Uzi Peretz, the first fighter killed under his command, on Mount Dov, about a year before the Second Lebanon War.

"It's a devastation, there's no other word," he said.

"Losing a father, a son, a friend, it's a hole, there's nothing worse than that. I do not even wish for our haters. But when you put it in front of the national issue - it is impossible to exist without this sacrifice and mission."

He noted that in his role as head of the Personnel Division he works for the continuity of the People's Army and to encourage conscription.

"It is impossible without it," he argued.

"One should not discover innocence, love, generosity,

Mutual guarantee and sacrifice only on Memorial Day.

You have to live it all the time. "

"Every soldier is a world and its fullness."

A decade and its spaces on Mount Dov (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Among the hundreds of citizens on the mountain, also came Moshe Merhavia, the father of Lieutenant Amichai Merhavia who fell in battle at Bint Jabal.

He said that his father, Avraham Merhavia, one of the founders of Tirat Zvi, who lost his brother Eliezer on the eve of the establishment of the state, was one of the first to propose, in the run-up to the first Independence Day, to commemorate Memorial Day and Independence Day.

The idea was adopted by all the religious kibbutzim and then by the state.

"My father was one of the first to propose the 'long outline,'" he said.

Merhavia added that in recent years he has been dressing festively for Memorial Day.

"I see it as the opening of Independence Day," he explained.

"Unfortunately Memorial Day is more unifying than Independence Day due to national identity," he argued, calling for it to be referred to today as "upliftment and empowerment."

"Our enemies still want to harm us and we need to stand up for ourselves. We need to continue educating our children to give up the soul for the existence of the state," he said.

Merhavia came to the mountain with his grandson, named after Amichai, his lost son.

"Two weeks after the fall of Amichai in the Battle of Bynet Jabal, we were scheduled for a wedding of the eldest daughter, and a wedding is notoriously postponed," he shared.

"Even though only two weeks have passed, there was great joy. While dancing, someone handed me a phone and told me that Battalion 51, a decade, wants to talk to you.

I did not speak to him until then and I did not know him, and he from Lebanon during the war wished good luck on behalf of the Golani family. "

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