Recipients of the decoration "Medal of Valor"
 
Note: The first 12 soldiers below also received the decoration "Hero of Israel".

 

Yair Racheli
Place of Action : Shefaram area
Date of Action : 19.01.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Emmanuel Landau*
Place of Action : Kiryat Motzkin
Date of Action : 17.03.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Abraham Avigdorov
Place of Action : Kiryat Motzkin
Date of Action : 17.03.1948
Awarded : April 1973

  

 

 

Zerubavel  Horowitz*

Place of Action : Road to Jerusalem
Date of Action : 27.03.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Yizhar Armoni*
Place of Action : Nabi Yusha, Israel
Date of Action : 20.04.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Emil Brig
Place of Action : Kibbutz Gesher area
Date of Action : 14.05.1948
Awarded : April 1973

 

 

 

Zvi Zibel*

Place of Action : Flight to Ben Shemen, Israel
Date of Action : 25.06.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Ben-Zion Leitner
Place of Action : village Iraq Suedan, Israel
Date of Action : 19.10.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Ron Feller
Place of Action : Kartiya, Israel
Date of Action : 19.07.1948
Awarded : April 1973

 

 

 

Yohai Bin-Nun
Place of Action : Mediterranean Sea
Date of Action : 22.10.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Siman-Tov Ganeh
Place of Action : village Iraq Suedan, Israel
Date of Action : 19.01.1948
Awarded : April 1973

Arieh Atzmoni
Place of Action : Rafiah, Egypt
Date of Action : 04.01.1948
Awarded : April 1973
     

Amihai Ayalon
Place of Action : Green Island, Egypt
Date of Action : 19-20.07.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Oded Amir*
Place of Action : Port Said harbor, Egypt
Date of Action : October 1973
Awarded : May 1975

Uzi Bar-Zur
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : Sinai Campaign, 1956
Awarded : April 1973
     

Natanel Horovitz
Place of Action : Golan heights
Date of Action : 09.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Gideon Giladi*
Place of Action : Egypt
Date of Action : 15.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975

Zvi Gringold
Place of Action : Golan heights
Date of Action : 06.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975
     

Moshe Drimmer*
Place of Action : Tel Fachar,Golan heights
Date of Action : 09.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Daniel Wordon*
Place of Action : EL Arish, Egypt
Date of Action : 07.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Uri Weisler*
Place of Action : Rafiah, Egypt
Date of Action : 05.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973
     

Shaul Vardi
Place of Action : Golan heights
Date of Action : 09.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Dan Ziv
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 01.11.1956
Awarded : April 1973

Moshe Tal*
Place of Action : Gaza area
Date of Action : 05.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973
     

Moshe Levi
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 15.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975

Yosef Leffer
Place of Action : Khan Younis, Gaza
Date of Action : 05.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Yacov Mizrachi
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 28.10.1955
Awarded : April 1973
     

Eitan Neveh
Place of Action : Jerusalem
Date of Action : 06.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Pinchas Noy
Place of Action : Kalkiliya, West Bank
Date of Action : 10.10.1956
Awarded : April 1973

Shlomo Nitzani
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : Sinai Campaign, 1956
Awarded : April 1973
     

Yuval Neria
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 6 -18.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975

Zvi Ofer*
Place of Action : Syria
Date of Action : 16 - 17.03.1962
Awarded : April 1973

Beni Inbar*
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 05.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973
     

Shlomo Arman*
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 06-08.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975

Mordechai Friedman*
Place of Action : Jerusalem
Date of Action : 06.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Asa Kadmoni
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 17.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975
     

Yehuda Ken-Dror
Place of Action : Sinai desert, Egypt
Date of Action : 01.11.1956
Awarded : April 1973

Gad Refen (Rafan)
Place of Action : West Bank
Date of Action : 06.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973

Avigdor Kahalani
Place of Action : Golan heights
Date of Action : 09.10.1973
Awarded : May 1975
     

 

 
 

David Shirazi
Place of Action : Tel Fachar,Golan heights
Date of Action : 09.06.1967
Awarded : April 1973
 
     

Source: pictures of Government Press Office, IDF
 
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