In the video: Documentation from Khan Yunis: A dog stings a terrorist site, Magellan fighters eliminate him/Photo: Doch
Uri Weinberg, the son of Col. Dror Weinberg who was killed in the second intifada, was seriously injured in the fighting in Gaza over the weekend (Friday), and the family asks for prayers for his recovery.
Dror Weinberg was the commander of the Yehuda Brigade when he was killed, and was the most senior officer to fall in the second intifada. On Saturday night, On November 15, 2002, a terrorist squad carried out an attack on the "Prayers Avenue" in Hebron. Weinberg, a resident of Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem, who was at the brigade's headquarters at the time, jumped into the incident. When he got out of the jeep to locate the terrorists, he was hit by a bullet and
died of his wounds in a short time. In that attack ,
12 people, including soldiers and members of the standby squad of Kiryat Arba. Weinberg left behind a wife and five children. A few months after his death, his widow gave birth to another son who was named Dror Nehemiah.
Col. Weinberg was born in Kfar Saba.
When he was two and a half years old, his two uncles, his mother's brother, Shimon and Shlomo Konigsbuch, were killed in the Six Day War.
He attended a state-religious school in his hometown.
In high school he studied at Noam Midrash in Pardes Hana and then at the Jerusalem Yeshiva for young people in Jerusalem.
Dror Weinberg from the victims of the shooting attack in Hebron/IDF spokesman
Weinberg enlisted in 1983, volunteered for a patrol of the General Staff and served as a team commander in the unit. In one of the covert operations in which Otar participated in Bezalesh.
He also participated in the operation to free the hostages in line 300. In 1987, he transferred to the paratrooper brigade and served as deputy commander of the August Company in the 890th battalion. After graduating, Weinberg was appointed commander of the 890th battalion of the paratrooper brigade, and even served as the commander of the Magellan unit.
In 1999, Weinberg was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanded the 623rd Brigade, a reserve paratrooper brigade, and at the same time the intelligence and reconnaissance school in Tzalim.
In his last position, he served as the commander of the Judean Brigade in the IOS Division. As the sector's brigadier general, he was able to establish good relations with both the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians.
The move was successful, and Hebron was considered a relatively calm area.
Shortly before his death, Weinberg was informed that it had been decided to appoint him commander of the regular paratrooper brigade.
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