Everything has already been written about Golani: about the strengths, about the roots, about the brigade that is the most Israeli there is, about the enormous price Golani paid on Black Saturday, and since then, and about the fact that from every such blow it rises, stronger than ever, and continues forward. Books and articles have already been written about this magic. In the current campaign, as in its predecessors, it derives to a large extent from the mid-level commanders: from those who also touch the commanders above, but mainly the fighters below. Those who give the order, and charge at the head of the force.
Flag Order of the Golani Brigade in Nahal Oz
Prominent in this group are the company commanders, who are leading the fighting in Gaza. This is true in all brigades, and it is true in the 13th Battalion, which paid the heaviest price in this campaign on Black Saturday and afterwards – including the death of the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg, in battle in Sejaiya.
I met Greenberg after Black Saturday. We talked then about the blow the battalion received and how to recover from it, and about what awaits them in Gaza. Then I went into the Gaza Strip with him and them, Lev Shetty, and there we talked about the war and the house, including the famous letters he gave to his wife Ashira and their daughter Arbel, which also became a kind of chilling will.
"Abush": Golani Battalion 13 commander Tomer Greenberg receives a moving message from his daughter in Gaza
Therefore, it was natural for me to meet Tomer's commanders, who are the backbone of the 13th Battalion in this war. We met on Monday this week in the Urim area. The day before, they had returned home from a weekend after a long period of fighting in Gaza. A few hours after we spoke, they got back on the dishes and entered Gaza, this time to the refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip. We sat for a long hour on folding benches in the trees in an open area, and talked about everything: about the living and the dead, about the family and fear, about the difficulties and successes, about Golani's strength, and about the fact that in this war there is no choice: we must continue until victory.
The battalion commander who fell, Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg. "The connection we all had with him was very deep", photo: Oren Cohen
Pumping strength on the weekend at home
The company commanders in Battalion 13 are the Israeli mosaic so typical of Golani: Captain Ido Teichman, commander of Company C, is an urbanite from the north; Captain Doron Dor, commander of Company B, is a moshavnik from the western Negev, who grew up in the Golani; Major Daniel Bonnie, commander of the supporting company, is a member of the settlements in Judea and Samaria. He is the only one married (plus one, Oz-Haim, who is four months old). Teichmann and Dor have friends waiting at home.
They used the home weekend mostly for refreshment. Bonnie says he helped a little at home, arranged and cleaned, used the time with the child, but the feeling was strange. "On the one hand, you're at home, on the other hand, there are many more tasks that need to be closed. Not just the maneuver: fallen comrades, and other things you want to do and you don't start because you're focusing on Gaza."
Golani in Gaza. Teichman: "It consists on the one hand to preserve the forces and on the other hand to preserve the human image", Photo: Oren Cohen
Dor says that he spent time with his parents and sisters, with his girlfriend and friends, managed to drink beer and barbecue, "squeezing every moment." It was a little strange to him, too, at first: "48 hours earlier we were still in Sejaiya, and on Friday we were already home. But the feeling was empowering."
Teichman says that the first thing he did was talk to the bereaved families. "Unfortunately, we didn't manage to reach them much during the war, so every time we go out we try to call them, to tell them that they think about them a lot, that we feel their sons with us. We think it's very significant for them, and we also draw a lot of energy from it." Besides, he was with the company, and with the family, "without much adventure. We did what gives us the most power: draw strength from our strongest sources."
Teichmann has seven dead in the company, all from Black Sabbath. Dor has 18. All of them, except one who was killed in Gaza, from that Shabbat. Bonnie has six. All three are surprised by the strength they have shown in their families. "They strengthen us, remind us how much they love us, pray that we get home safely," Bonnie says. Teichman says that the cliché "We came to strengthen and we came stronger" is relevant in every meeting and conversation: "I called one of the fathers to ask how he was doing, and he replied, 'Have you met your parents yet? Did you go to hug them? He didn't even concern himself with himself, but first of all made sure that I went to hug my parents. It's amazing."
All three lost soldiers in Gaza, but are surprised by the strength they showed in the bereaved families. Teichman: "I called one of the fathers to ask how he was doing, and he said: 'Have you met your parents yet? Did you go to hug them?' He didn't concern himself with himself, but made sure I hugged my parents. It's amazing."
Ever since the IDF began its ground operations in Gaza, there has been a heated debate among the families of the fighters about their departures home and meetings with their families. The paratrooper brigade commander, for example, prevented this, on the grounds that the soldiers might get confused, and that they should be kept focused on the mission and the fighting. Golani believed otherwise: that the refreshment strengthens the fighters for the future.
Those who are required to prepare them for these meetings, and especially for returning from them, are the commanders. "We talked to them about what should be done at home. Meet the family, rest, prepare for the future," says Teichman. "Just as they sleep at night and fill cartridges or lockers with water, they have to be with their families to fill themselves up. This message proved itself: They arrived on Sunday ready and ready for the future." Bonnie adds with a smile that "everyone came in shaved and polished, and mostly smiling."
Racing through the airport, with two babies
Bonnie is the only one of the three who was with the soldiers on 7 October. He woke up early and went out with a few unknown fighters to an unknown area when the first mortar shells began to land. "We jumped into the dishes and started hearing the reports. We drove toward Nahal Oz, to the outpost, and met six terrorists. This was our first encounter. Then I looked west, to the horizon, and I saw lots of people walking, tractors, motorcycles, and I understood."
What to do?
"I went to the first practice I know: a battery, cover with snipers, and we just started lowering."
The cries of distress began to pour in. He was called upon to reach the outpost, which had already been taken over by terrorists, as soon as possible. This is the famous outpost where the spotters and sergeants were killed, and from which five female soldiers were kidnapped. At that point, he was still with "soft" vehicles - Savannah and Humvee. He summoned the APC to him and prepared an attack on the outpost, joining the commander of Company B, Capt. Sheila Haravan, on the way. At the entrance to the outpost, he received a phone call from the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg, who was on his way from home to the south. "He pressured me to go to the village of Gaza, so we decided to divide: Shilo will continue to the post with the tank, and I will go to the village of Gaza with the APC." Haravan was killed a few minutes later, at the entrance to the post. Bonnie went on to the village of Gaza and fought it for another long day.
Capt. Ido Teichman, Maj. Daniel Boni and Capt. Doron Dor. Leading the fighting in Gaza, photo: Oren Cohen
Teichmann was at home. When the sirens went off, he was on his way to a ride when he got a call from his deputy. He quickly realized that there was something unusual and headed south. He arranged to meet with Greenberg in Ashkelon, and along the way began to understand the incident: about terrorists arriving at outposts, communities, and about civilians who were harmed, including the security coordinators of "his" communities, who no longer answered the phone. "We were without equipment, and we realized there were ambushes on the roads. I spoke with my brother, who is also in the army, and we arranged to meet in Sa'ad Square in order to gain strength. In Sa'ad, I met with my deputy, we gathered equipment and galloped after Tomer – he's in his private and we're in the CIO – into Kfar Gaza, into crazy fighting with clashes, rescuing residents from their homes, and even torpedoing an attempt to kidnap the body of our fighter."
Teichman: "We advanced through the alleys of the kibbutz. When we saw toys outside, we realized it was home and went in. In the safe room there was a crib with two babies." They were 10-month-old twins Guy and Roy Berdichevsky. Their parents, Itai and Hadar, were murdered, and they were left alone for a whole day."
The most significant event during these hours was in the evening. "We received a report that there were babies crying in one of the houses and we drove there with the CIO. We unloaded, without night vision devices, casting lights with our cellphone headlights. We walked through the alleys of the kibbutz, and when we saw toys outside, we realized it was home and went in. We found the parents dead. In the safe room there was a crib with two babies, who were between calm and stunned."
They were ten-month-old twins Guy and Roy Berdichevsky. Their parents, Itai and Hadar, were murdered, and they were left alone all day. "It was a shocking event. We all choked and couldn't speak, and shed a tear or two. We took a few bottles, a blanket and a diaper, and loaded them with us to the CIO. We covered their ears so they wouldn't have noise."
Are you racing through the airport with two babies on you?
"Yes. We're sweating, dirty, and they're on us. There was silence. No one spoke at that point. We took them out to the medical forces and went back inside to fight until morning, even though over the next two days there were quite a few infiltration attempts that we treated."
Dor was the battalion's division officer that Saturday. He teamed up with Greenberg and fought alongside him all that crazy day. He received command of the company only a month and a half later: Raban, who was killed in Nahal Oz, was replaced by Major Roy Maldessy, who was killed alongside Greenberg in battle in Sejaiya. Maldassi's deputy replaced him for a day, and then Dor was given the task of commanding the company, which lost two commanders in a short time. "When I took command, inside Gaza, I went through the CIOs and made calls to the fighters in the middle of the night. I explained to them that we had gone through a difficult event, but that it was a war and that we had more missions, and that both Tomer and Maldesi would like us to continue looking forward. A few hours later, in the morning, we were already on a new task and things were working well. It gave us all confidence."
Routine in the chaos of war
The fighting in Gaza is more complex than it seems. Some of it is carried out from the armored vehicles: only after the territory has been occupied, the foot scanning begins. The long stay inside the CIOs requires a different conduct, both in terms of maintaining the forces and understanding the reality in the environment, and in terms of the simplest things - how to sleep, how to eat, how to clean and how to defecate.
The answer is that everything happens inside. "There's a reality that you can unload and go outside if you're secure, and if not, it's all inside the CIO," Bonnie says. Teichman talks about the closeness this creates between commanders and fighters, and in general – that even in the chaos of war, routine is the most important thing. "Every morning there is an alert at dawn, the machine guns are cleaned, the APC is cleaned, we do a briefing, we make coffee - these patterns hold and strengthen the fighters. There is also routine in Gaza. Regular briefings before going on the offensive, debriefings of what happened and learning on the go, even lineups."
Sounds strange, routine of war.
"It gives us strength and allows us to stay alert and improve. The enemy is also improving. It learns us, and we need to learn it to be better. This routine creates certainty for warriors amidst the fog of battle. It's critical."
A moment to remember. Soldiers of Battalion 13 after the takeover of the Hamas parliament in Gaza, photo: Use under section 27A of the Copyright Law
Dor says this routine is deceptive. On the one hand, it makes it possible to bring the fighters into the framework, on the other hand, the fear is complacency. "Our job as commanders is not to go there. Talk to the fighters, move, start fire, change location even if it's not the most convenient, and you're already focused on a house where everything seems to be good and everyone has their own fixed corner, but if we don't do that, we'll get kidnapped. That's the tension we have to manage all the time."
Their battalion, as part of Golani's brigade combat team, which fought as part of the 36th Division, crossed the Gaza Strip almost two months ago in its center, south of Gaza City. As always, Golani was at the top, reached the sea and from there began to fight: in the coastal area, and then in the Zeitun neighborhood, in Sheti, in Sejaiya, and more. It took place in two rounds, each lasting about three weeks, the first until the lull in which the hostages were released, and the second afterward, until last week, when they went out to freshen up.
Sejaiya was the hardest nut to crack. "Everything was tougher about her," Dor says. "They didn't surrender. We saw more of an enemy trying to fight, but we also came stronger, with more fire." Teichman says that even in terms of infrastructure, Sejaiya was the toughest: "Our main problem there was the crowding in the alleys, where in some cases if you're as wide as builders, you really rub against the walls when you walk. The houses themselves were also prepared for fighting, and alongside regular apartments there were weapons storehouses, explosives laboratories and lots of tunnels."
דור אומר שבסג'עייה לא התגוררה אוכלוסייה עם קצת טרור, אלא טרור עם קצת אוכלוסייה. "אתה נכנס לבית והולך ישר לחדר הילדים, כי ברור לך ששם תמצא את הנשק ואת המטענים". טייכמן: "בבית של בהאא אבו אלעטא (בכיר הג'יהאד האסלאמי שחוסל בידי צה"ל ב־2019, י"ל) מצאנו מטען נ"ט גדול. כמעט כל ההיתקלויות המשמעותיות שלנו היו בבתי ספר של פליטים. זה רק מראה את הניצול של האזרחים בעזה".
הניצול הזה הפתיע אותם בממדיו. "אתה מגיע לבית, פותח תיק ורוד של 'הלו קיטי', ומוצא בתוכו ערימת מטענים שברור לך שבעוד כמה שעות, אם לא היית מגיע לשם, היו מתפוצצים על כוחותינו", אומר דור. "וזאת גם יכולה להיות סיטואציה של בחור שנראה תמים לגמרי, שהולך עם תיק כזה על הגב כמו פליט, ואז מפעיל אותו. מהר מאוד הבנו נגד מה ונגד מי אנחנו נלחמים".
הם נדרשו לנהל את המתח שבין מחבלים לאזרחים, תוך כדי הימנעות ככל הניתן מפגיעה בחפים מפשע. "זאת מורכבות לא פשוטה", אומר טייכמן. "מצד אחד ביטחון כוחותינו, מצד שני לשמור על צלם אנוש ומוסר. אתה מנסה לייצר סיטואציה שתשלב בין שניהם".
איך עושים את זה?
"כשיש ילדים אתה לא יורה. מצד שני, אתה מקפיד שהלוחמים שלך יהיו מאחורי מחסות. משתדלים להתנהל כך שכוחותינו לא ייפגעו, ואת מי שלא אויב לנתב למרחבים של הפליטים".
שלושת המ"פים. "ברגע שאתה נמצא איפה שהכומתה החומה נמצאת, אתה חלק מהמשפחה", צילום: אורן כהן
ובתוך כל זה יש את הסיטואציה המורכבת של החטופים, בוודאי אחרי האירוע הטרגי שבו הרגו לוחמים מכוח אחר את שלושת החטופים בסג'עייה. "כשמגיעים לאזור שיש בו חשד או מידע לחטופים, הדריכות הרבה יותר גבוהה", אומר בוני. "המפקדים מקדימה, והכל מאוד רגיש. ביטחון כוחותינו משחק פה תפקיד מאוד חשוב, הוא שני רק לביצוע המשימה, שהיא תמיד מעל לכל. אנחנו מתדרכים את הלוחמים, מסבירים להם את הסיטואציה, שזה מרחב יותר רגיש שיכול לצאת ממנו חטוף, וצריך להיזהר".
דור אומר שבסג'עייה לא התגוררה אוכלוסייה עם קצת טרור, אלא טרור עם קצת אוכלוסייה. "אתה נכנס לבית והולך ישר לחדר הילדים, כי ברור לך ששם תמצא את הנשק ואת המטענים". טייכמן: "רוב ההיתקלויות המשמעותיות היו בבתי ספר של פליטים"
טייכמן אומר שעד לאירוע הזה "אף אחד לא חשב שנגיע למצב שבו חטופים ישתחררו בצורה כזאת. בחלומות הכי ורודים שלנו לא דמיינו שנצליח להגיע למצב כזה. זה גם אומר משהו טוב על התמרון, שמצליח, אבל זה בעיקר מחייב אותנו, המפקדים, להיות עם הלוחמים, להסביר להם מה יכול לקרות".
כשהם יצאו מעזה להתרעננות, הם השמיעו ללוחמים שלהם את ההקלטה של איריס חיים, אמו של יותם, שביקשה לחבק ולחזק את החיילים שהרגו את בנה החטוף. "זה היה מדהים", אומר טייכמן. "מדברים הרבה על אחדות בימים כאלה, ומסר כזה שעובר בין הלוחמים מחזק אותם. כשאתה מרגיש שהעורף איתך, שיש לך גב, יש לך פחות סימני שאלה".
בוני אומר שהלוחמים בפנים שומרים על לכידות, או בלשונו: "אגרוף אחד". הרעשים שגוברים בחוץ לא חודרים אליהם, לשמחתם, והם נותרים "אטומים, חזקים, מגובשים. גם עכשיו, כשהיינו בחוץ כמה ימים, זה לא חדר לשיח". ההפך הוא הנכון: הציבור, כך הם מרגישים, מסתער עליהם עם חום ואהבה ופינוקים, וזה גם מה שהם לוקחים איתם לעזה.
חושבים על הילד מבארי
לא נהוג לדבר עם מפקדים על פחד. ובכל זאת, הפחד נוכח, בוודאי אחרי התופת של השבת השחורה, וגם לנוכח המחיר שצה"ל בכלל וגולני בפרט משלמים לאחריה. הדרך להתגבר עליו, הם אומרים, היא לדבר בבהירות. להסביר מה עושים, ולמה עושים. "אמרתי לחיילים שלי לפני הכניסה הראשונה את המספרים שהיו לי בראש: 7, 41, 1,500, 9 מיליון. ההרוגים של הפלוגה, של הגדוד, של מדינת ישראל ומספר האזרחים שאנחנו נלחמים פה בשבילם. כשאתה יוצא החוצה אחרי סבב לחימה ורואה את הסרטונים של הילדים ששוחררו מהשבי בזכות הלחימה בעזה, זה מחזק. זאת המהות. זה גולני".
It's not always easy. "Warriors have a hard time with not being able to attend funerals or the seven of their friends who were killed," Bonnie said. "Our job is to connect them and give them a sense of belonging. Once you turn it all into an equation that gives strength, you manage to lift both yourself and everyone around you."
The connection with the fallen comes up in every conversation in the battalion, including with them. "We're still in the middle of a mission, and everyone understands that," Teichman says. "The families are with us. It comes up in every call and every recording they send. You call to know what's sounding, I've come to strengthen, and they tell you, 'Stop, we're strengthening you. Finish the job and come. Don't even think about us until then.' And it comes up in every new conversation. Amazing."
It bothered Tomer a lot. Families were in his head all the time. His dream was to meet Berdichevsky's twins.
"It's also my dream. Crazy closure, especially for Tomer. You know, when we first arrived after Black Saturday at his office in Nahal Oz, he wanted to take some things from there, a wallet and stuff, and saw his daughter Arbel's plastic glasses. Such little glasses, of children, and it really touched him. He took these glasses with him at the airport to Gaza."
Tomer's death was particularly scarring, both because of the cumulative price paid by the battalion and the fact that Tomer himself became a kind of symbol in the special way he led his fighters following the severe blow they suffered, and also because of the man's special character.
"He had a rare combination: both an excellent commander and a person who knew how to talk to you at eye level, touch and ask how you were," Teichman says. "The connection between all of us with him was very deep, and also that of the fighters. Usually there is a great distance between the battalion commander and the fighter at the edge, but our fighters talked about him a lot, because he would go between the APCs, talk to everyone, be interested. The people really mattered to him."
Bonnie: "On the one hand, he was the most combative and with a knife between his teeth, striving forward and mission-oriented, and on the other hand, he was human and careful to find out what was happening at home. We've seen a lot of commanders over the years, but there weren't many like Tomer. When he was killed, the ground shook. But we immediately reset because it was clear to us that the only thing he wanted was for us to fly forward, conquer another locator, kill more terrorists and restore quiet to our country."
Bonnie: "When we arrive at an area where there is suspicion or information for abductees, the vigilance is higher. The commanders are in front, and everything is very sensitive. We brief the fighters, explain the situation to them, that this is a more sensitive space from which a kidnapper can emerge and we have to be careful."
Dor was particularly close to Greenberg, both as a subordinate and as a friend. "There's no way to describe him in words as a commander or a human being, he was something else. He was a professional commander, cool-headed, going into detail, and also caring like a father. When I would go home and want to tell my girlfriend what I was going through, I found out that he had already called her before me and told her everything. The tough battalion commander, who only wants to kill terrorists, talks to my girlfriend calmly and sensitively. It's Tomer."
In response to the obvious question of how difficult it is to replace a battalion commander in combat, Boni replies that "Golani is a strong stone." The fact that the battalion commander who arrived, Yuval Mazuz, preceded Greenberg in the post, also helped the smooth transition carried out during the war, so that the operational focus was maintained. "After Tomer was killed, all the commanders sat down, smoked a cigarette and talked about what Tomer would expect us to do now, and that helped us all," Teichman says. "Even now there is this sour feeling that we lost him, but we know that Tomer would be angry with us now why we are talking about him instead of being with the fighters and preparing. It's him."
The fall of commanders also sharpened the issue of fear for them. "Compared to what happened on October 7, everything sometimes seems small," Bonnie says. "The support we receive here, and the belief in the company and battalion, also help reduce fear and reduce fear. When there is an event, people are looking for eye contact, to be shoulder to shoulder, together - to storm as a group. It's much harder to storm alone than together."
Dor was particularly close to the late Lt. Col. Greenberg: "There is no way to describe him in words. He was a professional commander, cool-headed, going into detail, and also caring like a father. When I would go home and want to tell a friend what I had been through, I discovered that he had already called her before me and told her everything. It's Tomer."
Dor says fear exists, but since Black Sabbath it has been different. "There everything was face-to-face, to run forward without confusion in order to reach the citizens as quickly as possible. In Gaza, everything is more organized, more organized, and we also come much stronger and stronger."
This issue is also present in the interview. While we sat down to talk, three helicopters landed not far from us, evacuating wounded people from the Gaza Strip. No one said a word about it, but it was clear to all of us what was going on. "This awareness," says Teichman, "is also critical on the ground. We know that we may lose fighters, that we can get hurt ourselves, but then you think about this kid from Bari who will come home, or about the family that will return to Sderot, and understand that this is our time."
"Let them see the horizon in Nahal Oz"
I asked if they were missing anything in Gaza. "More coffee and gas balloons," was the expected Golenchik reply, followed by the obvious "just" and the statement that "we really don't lack anything. There is everything, and in abundance." Although the rainy days were a bit more challenging, they take this in proportion too: the APCs gave them shelter, and when they went outside, they had spare parts – storm suits.
I also asked about the debate outside about the aid ground forces receive: whether they feel they have enough of it, or whether they are being abandoned. "It seems to me that you can see the area and understand on your own," Teichman replied, to which Dor replied: "In preparation for each mission, we look at the area, and even before we start planning, many of the buildings no longer exist. We know how to get along with what we have, and there are many. Air force, artillery, tanks, and if we are close to the sea, so is the navy. We don't feel too big a disadvantage of anything."
More than once, Teichman says, "You plan to occupy a house, and when you arrive you discover that there is no longer a home. It was destroyed. You can see it in the level of destruction that occurred when we left Sajaiya. As a fighter with your feet on the ground, it gives you a lot of confidence and significantly strengthens us in maneuvering."
Dor: "In preparation for a mission, we look at the area, and even before planning, many of the buildings no longer exist. We get by with what there is, and there are many. Air force, artillery, tanks, and if we are close to the sea, so is the navy. We don't feel a downside of anything."
The goal at the end is clear to everyone - victory. Still, I wondered what they were saying to their soldiers, what victory was for them. "First and foremost, the residents of the envelope will return to living a good and normal life, and will return to plowing the fields, and that the residents of Nahal Oz will be able to see the horizon," Teichman says.
Dor says that the victory will be "in the establishment of additional communities in the envelope, so that the population will double and triple. Let there be no threat to the residents. I grew up in the envelope, so it's clear to me that a child can walk in Nahal Oz, play with his friends, study, without the constant fear that a mortar shell will fall on him or that a terrorist will infiltrate him. We want there to be no threat from the Gaza Strip. No threat. Not a stone or a missile. And of course the abductees, that's clear, although we probably won't be the ones to release them."
Teichman: "Go figure."
Dor: "I hope so. At least right now it's not planned, but it will certainly be part of the victory."
I wondered what they were saying to their soldiers about what to do next: how long the war would last. "As much as necessary," they replied, and then said that it doesn't concern them, nor is it in the discourse at all. Still, I mentioned, this is a particularly tough and long war: the Yom Kippur War lasted about 20 days, here they closed 80 days this week, and the end of the war was not in sight.
"In the Yom Kippur War we didn't get such a blow to civilians, the soldiers were the ones who were hit. When you remind yourself and your soldiers of October 7, time is less of a function. It's tough, obviously, but there are people in the envelope who haven't been home for two and a half months, and there are people who have lost their children and families and their homes were destroyed, so who are we to complain? We'll get home in a month, in two months, everything is fine."
"When you remind yourself and your soldiers of October 7, time is less of a function. It's tough, but there are people around the area who lost their children and families and their homes were destroyed, so who are we to complain? We'll get home in a month, two months, everything is fine."
This answer also contains much of Golani's spirit. There is something about this brigade that powerfully draws everyone, family members and strangers. Of the three commanders, only Dor grew up in the brigade. Bonnie and Teichman came from outside, but they are already Golanchiks at heart. "There are no such things as Golani," Dor says. "There is no place in the world, no power in the world, no group in the world, however we put it, that will get so many slaps and still insist on being in the hardest place, and always first in front."
Bonnie says, "You can come from the most disconnected place in the world. Once you are where the brown beret is, you are part of the family, and the deeper you go into it, the more you discover the power. It's a crazy thing."
Teichmann returns to the pair of words he has been saying to himself and his fighters since that Shabbat: "Until victory." For him, this is true in every sense. "Dealing with the people who are the people of Israel, values, fighting spirit and fulfilling missions. Until victory. Always."
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