Hi,
On the way to Mindal birthday party, I stopped on the memorial of Oz (77th battalion), fallen soldiers. The site looks over the site of the heroic tank battle of Valley of Tears (Emek HaBacha) of Yom Kippur war.
The soldiers of the tank battilion, under the battilion commander, Avigdor Kahalani, held strong against the enemy tanks and prevented it from penetrating the northern Golan Heights.
Many of the battalion soldiers had lost their lives in these fight on October 1973, and this memorial commemorating their memory and tell the story of the fight.
Take Care
Gad
The sign to Memorial site of the Valley of Tears and a Nagmash coming back from a mission
The memorial site (where the trees are) and above it, Mount Hermonit
The entrance to the memorial: against hundreds of tanks, they marched high, knowing that only with their body, they can save, the Golan Heights and Galilee settlements; the people won’t forget, the brave heroes, and the action of the boys, for generations will be memorized, how they fallen but not for nothing.
The memorial site at the sunrise. Far in the south, over the valley, you can see the Booster ridge.
The story of the fight
My brothers heroes of the Golan
The fallen soldiers of 77th battilion (Oz) on the Yom Kippur war
Royal Ordance L7 guns of the Centurion tank fought here
The fallen soldiers of 77th battilion (Oz) on the since Yom Kippur war to our days
An Israeli Centurion tank and a Syrian T-62 tank
Flags and Oz 77 symbol
The auditorium and trees growing bent of the wind
A continuous track of a tank
The valley of tears
The Israeli and Syrian tanks from a different angle
Mount Hermonit north to the site
Mount Hermon – on the right (where it snows) the Syrian Hermon and the mount summit. To the left – the Israeli Hermon.
Watch out – cows are crossing
Peace with Golan Heights
The top entrance to the site
Welcome to the memorial commemorating the soldiers who fell serving in the 77th battalion
Each of the trees on the site planted in the name of a fallen soldier
The view of the Valley of tears from the Booster ridge
The new wind turbines of Golan heights from the site
The cover of the book Oz 77, by Avigdor Kahalani, which tells the story of tthe fight. A picture of the old memorial (you can spot items that were kept on the new one). A map of the fight, the place where the memorial site stands is marked in red dot