IDF campaign to return stolen equipment successfully ends

1,050,957 ammunition and 395 combat equipment, including optical means, 21,368 items were returned, including tents, vests, camouflage gear, helmets, parachutes and more again.

The operation contributed operationally and safely to the Israeli army and to the state of Israel the session of weapons at home carries a risk.

The equipment returned to the IDF must be used or destroyed in a secure manner, depending on its condition. The historical elements are sorted and clbadified according to the needs in the IDF history department.

The head of the logistics unit, Brigadier-General Nissan Davidi, said: "As part of the operation, hundreds of positions of vehicles that were moving in the country, which has brought back to the military military equipment, weapons and historical objects important to document the history. I congratulate the citizens of Israel for the cooperation and understanding of the operational and safe importance of the operation.

Here are some of the stories recounted here:

In response to the announced operation, the widow of Brigadier- General Uri Ben-Ari, Mrs. Milka Ben-Ari Milka is also the Fire grandmother Ido Ben-Ari, who was killed during a training accident in November, 2016, returned documents and records that were kept in their house. "Brigadier-General Ben -Ari was commander of the armored corps, a diplomat and a writer.

As part of the material, the 12 Uri notebooks were found, including transcripts and recordings of the conferences held during the Six Days .where he served as commander of the Harel Brigade, orders and summaries of the armor exercises that took place in the 1950s and influenced the IDF building. handwritten documents and conference recordings given by the commanders January 1974 on the Yom Kippur War, in which he was Deputy Commander of the South Command, as well as a manuscript and comments from the editorial staff of his books "After". "Noa Noa Sof".

As part of the operation, documents of an intelligence officer of the Yom Kippur War Brigade were returned. Among the documents was an explanatory flyer for commanders since the outbreak of the war, a log of the command room in the officer's handwriting and two daily reports of fighting. These pages document the battles of the "Chinese Farm", the armored and infantry battles of the IDF against the armored and mechanized forces of the Egyptian army in the Western Sinai Peninsula, from the ninth day to the twelfth day of the Yom Kippur War. 19659004] As part of the operation, a family member of Private David Greenwald came to the IDF 34 years after his death, returning his bag and David's personal belongings which were returned to the family after his death . David was the only son of his father, while his mother had two older brothers. As the only son of his father, he had the right to serve in a rear unit, but he was doing everything in his power to serve in a combat unit. Finally, David managed to serve in the parachute unit under the command of Major-General (Res.) Yom Tov Samaya. Before leaving for the course, Colonel David was stationed in Lebanon. On the way from Lebanon to Israel, while he was in a convoy south of Zahrani, January 12, 1984. Terrorists opened fire on the convoy from an ambush. David was seriously injured and died. Among his articles, there were documents he wrote, a briefing on the operation in Lebanon

( YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem )