(Video) Kahalani - The Story of a Warrior

Avigdor Kahalani with his crew

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May 8, 2011..

The "Story of a Warrior", a 14 minute video, recounts the battle to hold the Northern Golan against overwhelming Syrian forces, during the opening days of the Yom Kippur War. Through the eyes of Avigdor Kahalani, awarded the Medal of Valor for his decisive role as commander in this field of fire, we hear about the massive forces arrayed against his small group of tanks, tenaciously holding out against all odds, until reinforcements would arrive.




Avigdor Kahalani was a career officer in the IDF, achieving the rank of Brigadier General. In the Yom Kippur War (1973), he served as commander of an armored battalion on the Golan Heights. Kahalani received the Medal of Distinguished Service for service during the Six Day War, where he was badly wounded when his Centurion tank caught fire. He later received the Medal of Valor for service during the Yom Kippur War. During this war he commanded a hastily assembled group of tanks and crews from different armour units (The Israeli forces were in a disjointed state due to the surprise combined Arab attack which commenced the war). The group repelled a vastly superior Syrian force which had overrun the Israeli positions in the first days of the war, in the Golan Heights region of northern Israel. The battle proved to be one of the turning points of the war. After the war, the valley where it took place was littered with hundreds of burned Syrian tanks and was renamed "Emek Ha-Bacha" ("The Valley of Tears"). - Wikipedia

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