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into the bunker wall. “What are you himself to the enemy, and take his It was normally used to illuminate
doing?” Amos asked. best shot. a target area, create thick smoke, or
burn fuel and ammunition, but it
“I’m making sure someone will It was reckless. would not inflict any damage. Why
remember us!”
Suicidal. bother with it?
Suddenly, behind the massive tank
convoy, they spotted jeeps carrying Against orders. “Amos, let’s try firing them anyway.
Syrian officers. Elimelech ordered They did it anyway. Maybe it’ll scare them!”
Amos to fire his last two mortar Yossi was ready.
rounds at the jeeps. They scattered Amos held up the helmet. It
and realized the Israeli outpost had immediately drew fire. They “Find me a target!”
not yet been destroyed. moved 20 feet away and tried again.
Nothing. He quickly grabbed the Amos raised the helmet on a rifle.
The tanks moved forward. That’s binoculars and inched up to identify Nobody shot at it. He quickly inched
when Nissim, the heavy machine a target. He saw a tank, barked the up and yelled out the range and
gunner, did something insane. position to Yossi.
range and position to Yossi, who
He fired his .50 caliber machine gun jumped up and took a shot. Yossi jumped out and fired the
at the lead tank. The bullets bounced bazooka. Another direct hit, but
off the tank. They couldn’t pierce A direct hit! One tank down. 109 to they both knew it was a joke. A huge
armor. No one knew what Nissim go. white spray blanketed the tank with
was thinking. “Amos!” Yossi cried. “Move! Let’s go thick smoke. No penetration. No

The lead Syrian tank swiveled its further down and try it again!” danger to the tank crew.
main gun at Nissim’s position and Amos moved. They did it again. And
fired, scoring a direct hit. It exploded again. But something amazing happened.
in a swirl of flame and smoke. Amos and Yossi watched as the
Nobody could have survived a blast Yossi destroyed four tanks that enemy abandoned their unscathed
like that. day. The other tanks showered tank! They were evidently terrified
murderous fire on Outpost 107, by the blast and smoke, and
Amos ran over to the position, furious that the meager Israeli force the knowledge the Israelis had
shouting “Nissim! Nissim!” was destroying their Russian-made destroyed four tanks the day before.
To Amos’ great shock, Nissim battle tanks. They rushed out of the tank and
responded, “I’m okay! I’m okay!” He The barrage continued the next day fled towards Syria. The other
appeared slightly dazed but came too. Over the din of incoming shells, tanks moved on to other battles,
through without a scratch. abandoning the outpost.
Yossi yelled, “Amos, let’s take out
The Golani men were now facing more tanks!” The 19 soldiers in Outpost 107 had
obliteration. They were down to fought for 100 hours straight and
almost no ammunition. All seemed “We’re out of armor-piercing survived, seeing open miracles that
lost. rounds!” changed their lives forever.
“What else do we have?” This story originally appeared on aish.com
Yossi still had his bazooka, with only
a few rounds left. “White phosphorus.” Shlomo Horwitz is the founding director
of an educational theater project which
Yossi and Amos were underground White phosphorus (WP) was has provided creative Torah programming
in a maze of bunkers. There was powerless against the enemy tanks. across the US, Canada, England and Israel
no way to fire the bazooka without
exposing Yossi as a target. How could
they release a proper, well-aimed
shot?
They had an idea. Amos would put a
helmet on top of a rifle and gradually
raise the helmet above ground. If it
drew fire, he’d quickly lower it. He’d
then move to another spot and try
it again. If there was no fire, he’d
look out to determine the range
of the target tank, and tell Yossi.
Yossi would then jump up, exposing Amos (center) and fellow members of Outpost 107

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