The IDF has released a photograph of Lt. Col. Dov Harari, who was killed today in an unprovoked attack against the IDF by the Lebanese army.
Note that Colonel Harari is standing here in front of a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. You can make out the name of Mordechai Anielewicz, who led the Ghetto’s fight against the Nazi occupiers. For those who don’t read Hebrew, the cover on the Torah scroll he is carrying bears the name of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who perished in the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003.
Dov Harari died because Lebanon’s territory has become a playground for Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman sounds absurd when he accuses Israel of violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701 when that same resolution demands that Hezbollah - praised by Suleiman in 2009 for its “heroism” - disarm. Instead of disarming, Hezbollah has moved around 40,000 missiles and 20,000 fighters into southern Lebanon, with the aim of pulling Israel into a far more devastating war than in 2006.
If that war does transpire, then Dov Harari will have been its first victim, killed not on Lebanese soil but, as this aerial image demonstrates, inside Israel.
Dov was my nephew i.e. his mother is my sister.You could never wish to meet a nicer person. He has been an influence on many of my grand nephews and grand nieces who are either officers or going to be. We have one 15and half years old who is now attending the officers school in Haifa her brother is already a leutenant i.e. two pips.officer his name is Tom Na-amaman
I aM VERY PROUD OF HIM I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA
This is a great shame, it showed us on the news that the Israeli Army were clearing some scrub, and allegedly the Arabs (who probably had good vision of what was happening), thought they were being attacked.
If those people can find an excuse to not perpetuate peace, they will.
I was living on Kibbutz Maabarot last summer, and for the first time in 30 years of living accaisionally in Isreal, I have to say that last year was the first year that I felt mildly concerened about my safety.
Israel will always be a potential battle ground, and it was claustraphobic being in a place that just talks army all day, and having to go shopping with armed gaurds searching you, just left me cold.
Great Shame.
I love Israel!