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Matan's Bionic Leg |
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When the Second Intifada broke out, Matan's unit was sent to the Gaza Strip. There he encountered areas filled with explosive devices and booby traps. One of those devices went off, wounding him severely and killing three of his friends. |
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Izzy Ezagui |
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It was a tense, highly stress-filled afternoon. Izzy Ezagui and his seven buddies in the Haruv Kfir unit of the Israel Defense Forces, were in a tent by the Gaza border this past January, during Operation Cast Lead -- the War in Gaza. |
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Haim Anlen |
Haim joined the army on August 14th, 1966, where he served in the 'Golani' unit as a combat soldier and squad commander. During the Six Day War, Haim participated in battles in Nablus and the Golan Heights. On March 31st 1968, he was severely injured while fighting terrorists in the Golan Heights, and was left paralyzed 100% and confined to a wheelchair.
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Ofer Varfel |
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In these very moments, Ofer can be found in the middle of a jeep tour in South Africa, together with two of his best friends from the army. Sounds pretty ordinary, doesn't it? Ofer was declared to be paralyzed 100+ percent from the waist down after being injured while protecting his teammates in Nablus in July 2004. |
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Eli Yablonik |
Eli Yablonik was a tank commander fighting the egyptians tanks during the Yom-Kippur war.
Eli was hit directly from an Egyptian missile .
From that moment his whole life was changed forever!
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Dror Cohen |
Dror was a navigator in the Air Force and was injured in a car crash while he served in the army which left him a paraplegic.
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Sheri Ben-Aroya |
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Sheri was an Intelligence Officer in the Air Force.
Three years ago she went back to her home in Netanya to celebrate Passover with her family,they decided to gather in a hotel to celebrate the Passover Seder. Minutes before the Seder began, a suicide bomber burst into the Park Hotel and blew himself up next to the table where Sheri and her family were sitting.
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Kinneret Bosani |
Served as a bar-maid in "My Coffee Shop" in Tel Aviv. The suicide-bomber walked into the coffee-shop and exploded himself standing next to her. Kinneret was thrown by the blast off, severely injured in her head, lungs, left hand, right eye (total loss of eye-sight) and had 70% of her body deeply burnt.
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THE GOLDEN BOY |
"That's my motto in life," says a smiling Shai, "no complaints, no whining - just get back in the game."
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