זאב קישון רב פקד בדימוס לוחם פלס"ר בפיקוד שאול ברדק-ראובן טרייבר חטיבה 3 אלכסנדרוני מלחמת כיפור 73

A-Interviewer: Ze'ev Kishon, a senior commander, specifically a retired combatant of the brigade's reconnaissance company. Reconnaissance Company Commander: Shaul Bardak - Reuven Treiber Later on, he served in the police volunteers unit. Corps / Unit: Brigade 3 – Alexandroni, Brigade Commander Tzvi Bar - Brazani Interviewee: Ze'ev Kishon Retired Special Superintendent, Brigade Reconnaissance Company Fighter Reconnaissance Company Commander: Shaul Bardak - Reuven Treiber Later he was in the police volunteers unit Corps / Unit: Brigade 3 – Alexandroni Brigade Commander Tzvi Bar - Brazani Interview, photography and editing: Yitzhak Botzer Date: 21.05.26 \ Ze'ev Kishon. Special Superintendent (retired), Police Volunteer Unit. Member of the Reconnaissance Company of Brigade 3 (Alexandroni). Brigadier General Zvi Bar (Barezni). Patrol Company Commander Shaul Bardak/ Reuven Treiber. Zeev was born in 1941 in the settlement of Tel Tzur near the Binyamina colony. His parents were educated in Eastern Europe on the values ​​of Zeev Jabotinsky's Betar movement. His grandparents were exterminated in the Holocaust. As a rule, the parents did not tell their children too much about their experiences in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War II. In Israel, the parents worked for the British army, among other things, to earn a living but also to obtain weapons and intelligence information for the Etzel organization to which they belonged. The family lived in several places in the area until it settled in 1946 in the Binyamina colony. The family's history is intertwined with the history of Binyamina. The landscape of his childhood included places like Nahal Taninim. The boys used to bathe in the waters of the stream, which were clean and suitable for bathing at the time. Zeev studied at the local school. One of his classmates was Ehud Manor. The family had a farm and the father was also an agricultural guide, when his work led to the beginning of Jewish settlement in the Segev Bloc in the north. In November 1959, Zeev enlisted in the army. He aspired to become a paratrooper but found himself in the Golani Brigade, Battalion 51. Later, he joined the Golani Patrol. At that time, the patrol members provided security for, among other things, an archaeological expedition that was engaged in excavations in the Judean Desert. Later, Zeev took a parachuting course. Those who served in the patrol parachuted, but not the members of the other battalions of the brigade. The patrol's company commander was Yosef Castel. Brigadier General Mordechai (Motta) Gur, later the Chief of Staff. Among the patrol's other activities, it is worth noting the soldiers' participation in the filming of the film "Exodus" as extras. Zeev remembers director Otto Preminger and Hollywood actors such as Paul Newman, who took part in the film. The patrol members even took part in the fight for the waters of the Sea of ​​Galilee against Syrian shelling from the Golan Heights. In one case, the patrol received a unit medal from the Northern Command's Major General Meir Zore. Zeev devotes a central chapter in his testimony to the battle that took place in 1962, which was called Operation "Swallow" but later became known as Operation Nukiev. He describes in great detail the steps taken to take over the outpost north of Ein Gev in order to put an end to the incessant shooting of the fishermen in the Sea of ​​Galilee, which was entirely within Israeli territory. During this battle, Zeev was wounded in the leg. After his discharge from the army, he returned home to engage in farming. During the Six-Day War, Zeev took part in the occupation of northern Samaria. On one of the days of the war, while he was in a busy camp near Afula, an Iraqi Tupolev plane crashed there and eight soldiers were killed. During the Yom Kippur War, Zeev served in the reconnaissance company of the 3rd Brigade, the Alexandroni Brigade. The brigade commander was Zvi (Barezni) Bar. The patrol commander was Shaul Bardak, but after a few days he was replaced by the permanent company commander Reuven Treiber, who returned to Israel from a mission abroad. The patrol members operated at the foot of Mount Hermon, assisting in the evacuation of wounded and dead who were taken down from the mountain after the first attempt to liberate the occupied Hermon outpost. The force subsequently engaged in repelling the Syrian forces until the outpost was finally liberated. The patrol members collected intelligence materials and weapons (AML). Here too, Zeev gives a sober perspective on how the battles were viewed through the eyes of the fighters in the field. The sight of the wounded and the fallen accompanies him to this day, even though he does not consider himself to be post-traumatic. After the war, Zeev returned home and continued farming. At a certain point, he joined the police volunteer unit and even took a volunteer officer course and reached the rank of special superintendent in the unit. ...