אורי בן ארי פיקיוויקי

Uri Ben Ari won fame as a platoon commander in the Palmah’s Portzim Brigade at the beginning of the War of Independence and by war’s end was a battalion commander in the 7th Brigade. Ben Ari commanded the Harel Brigade reserves in the Six-Day War, assisting in the liberation of Jerusalem and the conquest of the Golan Heights. He was one of few commanders to escape censure in the Yom Kippur War, reacting swiftly and competently on the southern front. Ben Ari (left) in the War of Independence