Among those killed in the heavy disaster that occurred Tuesday night in Sejaiya, whose name was permitted to be published this morning, is Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenberg, commander of the 13th Battalion in the Golani.
Greenberg, a resident of Kibbutz Almog near the Dead Sea, will be laid to rest at 15 p.m. on Mount Herzl, and already in the hours leading up to the funeral, as his coffin made its way toward the cemetery in the capital, many citizens from the area gathered on the roadsides with Israeli flags to accompany him on his final journey.
Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg on the cover of Israel Hayom, 18.10, photo: None
Last month, Lt. Col. Greenberg was interviewed for an article by Yoav Limor deep in the Gaza Strip with his soldiers. During the conversation, when the subject of longing for the family left behind came up, I surprised him and showed him a video in which his three-year-old daughter watches a picture of her father on the cover of the Israel Hayom newspaper (in a previous interview with him) and excitedly says the word "Abush." "We're working great," Greenberg said in the video, "We'll win, it will take more time, but we'll go home."
In the interview, Greenberg recounted that terrible morning on October 41, when he discovered that all the outposts in his area had fallen, terrorists had infiltrated all the towns there, and <> of his soldiers had been killed. "At home in the village of Gaza we found blue-eyed twins with the bodies of their parents next to them," he said.
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