When a single tank saved Israel
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21 years old , he helped save his nation, outnumbered 100 to 1 and this honorable hero fought like an army of one .
Why is there no Sabaton song about him? 🤔
@@theodorkorner1497 Probably because it would be controversial
Give some credit to the gunners and drivers too. One man can't operate a tank all by himself.
Honorable? Give me a break, he’s a jew, what do jews know about honor?
@@theodorkorner1497 They probably haven't been able to figure one out yet, but it would be amazing, but they've got hundreds of other amazing people in history to write about too. Sabaton is a really big GigaChad.
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
- G Man, Half Life 2
I thought of that too
ah yes
Ik I recognnized what he said g man so wise
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking of this
@opener of the world lol remember all of the Arab armies couldn't defeat Israel let that sink in
Israel gets attacked from everyside
World:"Israel please stop bullying your neighbour's"
6 countries try to kill all of israel. arabs: Israel are commiting ethnic cleansing!
@kira you guys lost so hard you just went straight down to crying underdog
Why do people think israel are bullying their neighbor?
If you love them so much take them to your country or wherever they came from 🤷🏻♂️
@@mohammadamr7759 they are where "they" came from...read the Bible.
This is one of those stories that you would think was fiction if it wasn't validated by history books.
Mr. Greengold is a hero of the first order.
This is why whenever I watch action movies I always give action scenes the benefit of the doubt. Reality is stranger than fiction.
I would LOVE to see a movie about Zvika force
I am Christian from Lebanon and I have all respect to that man that fought for his country and his people and women and children. All respect to that Israeli lieutenant. Amazing story . I know in some time Israel helped Christians in Lebanon against that attacking forces . And we had people in the Christians armed resistance that stood alone against thousands of enemies and this story reminded me of them . Greetings
Yes. This was even greater than Audie Murphy or Alvin York!
@@lebanonchristian3951 are there a lot of Christians in Lebanon?
What a modest man. Even 20 tank kills is an amazing feat. Doesn't matter where you're from that is amazing.
Even for fighter jets that's huge target.
Has any other tank commander taken out 20 tanks since the end of World War II?
@@ronmaximilian6953 So many of them
@@coolguy2715 who ?
@@shivanshna7618 Kurt Knispel was a Sudeten German Heer panzer loader, gunner and later commander, and was the highest scoring tank ace of World War II with a total of 168 confirmed tank kills; the actual number, although unconfirmed, may be as high as 195.
"Appear strong when you are weak, appear weak when you're strong"
Sounds familiar
Sounds Sun Tzumiliar
@@Leadblast something like Sun Tzu
@@unknownguy716 yeah, something like that 😏
My wife uses that on me
The Syrians were fighting for their king the Israelis were fighting for their very existence. Motivation is important for moral.
Syria wasn’t a monarchy.
Lol who was king? 😑😑😑😑😑😂😂😂😂😂
Mo"
@@alternativehistoryandfutur6786 Dictator, even worse.
@@alternativehistoryandfutur6786 hafez al assad
I am Christian. I have visited Israel many times. The Golan Heights are so close to Tel Aviv! May God always continue to bless Israel.
Tel Aviv isn't really close to the Golan heights.
@@R0DBS יחסית לארהב
I can't think of a single place on earth less blessed and hard more hardships than Isreal. If this is how your God blesses a "chosen" group of people, I'm praying he doesn't bless me or my land!!
not with traffic jams....
God has nothing to do with it.
That moment when you're carrying your whole squad in war thunder lmao
Imagine fighting for the fate of your country only to get gaijined
That ASU player lol
@@epapa737 Ghost shells lmao
@opener of the world more like the Egyptian quickly accepted the UN cease fire and call it a day
😂😂
13:40 One can not less than admire the bravery of those crews who fought inside immobilized tanks.
Real life version of the Movie "Fury"! Pretty badass!
When I pressed the timestamp it showed me an ad about a tank game lmao
It wasn't bravery. They had to. It was that or die.
@@Aloy-sh6gq it was brave. They could have given up and surrendered
@@Aloy-sh6gq Yeah, keep repeating that to yourself until you really believe it.
"Were surrounded sir!"
"Good! We can shoot in every direction!"
That man is the greatest tanker post-WWII.
That's subjective, and debatable.
@@wolfrainexxx tell us more
@@wolfrainexxx if God is with the Israelites,who can be against them?
@@armysimp The greatest tanker may have died in combat, or an engagement might have taken place we're unaware of.
@@badcornflakes6374 Where does the Bible say God is with Israel?
Last I read, it said she'd kill their Messiah, and after God forsook her, she'd say, "I am no widow."
This video was a great change from the regular hypothetical scenarios. I'd like to see more videos about heroic acts during war.
It will probably come, because, the potential content with this nieshe focus is limited.
@@Go-ah-oold unless Binkov start's adding other variables, like morale, small unit tactics, information wars etc. Then he could do videos like "Australia occupying the South Pacific" or "China + Russia vs The Taliban".
Because Binkov mostly focuses on quantitative factors, not so much qualitative.
@opener of the world you seem to enjoy talking about Israel’s losing battles way too much my friend , btw I’m an Israeli
@@eranhaim9913 He's probably an Arab/Egyptian nationalist who is buthurt over the fact that Israel still exists and still is the best place to live in the Middle East
@opener of the world "oogabooga we wuz strong n shiet"
>Gets continuously defeated
The extraordinary part to me, is that he and his commander knew they were dead before the 1st shot was fired. There's no way he whent into that expecting to live. He rushed to the front to DIE and happend to win the war and live. Just astonishing 😲
It's called valor. If you expect to live through such an incident, it's called stupidity. True valor requires a dedication to something greater than yourself. Hopefully it's something better than yourself too.
You sound like he had a choice in the matter. It's called war and that's how you fight it, all soldiers face dying, if they run away they can be shot by their own buddies, it's serious business and it takes some luck along with skill to come out alive. Preforming your duty is not extraordinary at all, unless you just never knew anything about the military before and that's what you sound like. Grow up, man up, and respect those that died for your freedoms. You may need to fight someday, who knows?
@@Billfish57 Understand that you do have a choice. Your a human not a robot. Thats what makes soldiers like him so interesting, he chose to fight despite knowing the math. You never know what you going to do until you actually see combat. Many man have given in to their most natural basic instinct to survive when faced with eminent death. Also to to have 1 tank hold an area against scores of enemy tanks looked like a waste of a tank to me. Given how strained their forces were they didn't have the luxury of throwing assets away like that. That tank was incredibly lucky.
Very true, he probably only expected to take out 1 or 2 tanks before losing his own life but it turns out training matters!
That's how you soldier. Look at Lt. Speirs in band of brothers CZcams his feats. In a personal interview he said you have to except your already dead in order to live.
Knowing that the enemy will kill everyone of your family, friends and countrymen they can is highly motivating.
The Syrians only wanted their stolen Golan Heights back as it was legally their land and never a part of the British Mandate. No one lived there at the time besides a few farms and the only strategic reason for Israelis to ever occupy it is to plan an invasion of the rest of Syria (which they just have Americans do for them today)
@@aq1184 Strategic reason for them to occupy it is as a buffer zone not to invade Syria lmao. Funny how everyone says 'Israel wants to invade' when all the countries surrounding them have tried to invade and wipe them out- Multiple times.
@@flailingelbows7073 makes sense since Syria *TOTALLY* isn't being invaded and bombed as we speak by Israel and it's allies
@@aq1184 syria literally tried to invade israel. america isnt trying to conquest syria. rofl.
@@jacob-cs5fx ok yes we're just casually spending billions deploying tens of thousands of troops to have no control over it, got it *TOTALLY* makes sense. Israel *TOTALLY* didn't feel free to annex the Golan because of that either
The first war we lose will be the last war we lose.
You've been surviving wars for millenia, what's one more to you guys.
@@Leadblast There will be no mercy shown for Israel. No UN mandates no incredibly biased tv stations reporting on it. The world will sit by and quietly watch genocide happen. Israel only gets one chance. However many thanks to the brain dead people who keep attacking with basically outdated and ineffective weapons allowing Israel the chance to hone and build new systems and test them in very real world situations. You think the IDF romped and stomped in the 70's I would love to see them completely unleashed. It would be a blood bath.
@@bf3and4highlights83 chill bruh
@@dinokrafte6938 He's right, though. Israel, since it's independence, hasn't lost a single war. The next war they lose is the end of Israel and its people. Their neighbours have made it clear that they want to totally annihilate the people of Israel. They're basically surrounded by the same enemies they had in WW2. Most Muslim nations were allied with the Nazis mostly because both dislike Jews.
All these heroics are impressive but the point where the story really got me was when he said "I can't go on anymore!"
I just imagine a Spiderman meme "Careful, he is a hero. He is just a kid, no older than my son"
"You can run soldiers for 60 hours but after that they have to be replaced"
- General Patton
@@SuperLusername nailed it
@@SuperLusername nailed it
"How many tanks do you have compared to the enemy?"
"Haha, about that."
"Uhm, i can't say, you see... uhm... the.... oh, the syrians are listening to our calls and bomb us, yes! so we can't say that... for that reason..."
"Ah er you see, uh we need to uh maintain radio silence! Yeah radio silence! We can't have those pesky artillery figuring out where we are after all!"
@@aaronadamson7463 "Hmmmmm, very convincing Soldier. Here's 500 more tanks!"
Soviet Union almost gave away so much top tier technology and vehicles, so cheap they sold it. While negleckting needs of it's own citizens. Our mothers and fathers sturgled, so USSR could keep supporting it's so called partners. And what they do? They loose 20 tanks to a single man. Bravo. Shows you that vehicles are good, but warior inside is the part which is most important.
We are all just numbers to the people up top playing their games
Just imagine if all nations invested most of their military budget back into their countries. Such good could be done with it.
I don't know? Murphy's rules for combat rule 1. Remember you weapon was build by the lowest bidder.
Hey dude as an American I can relate to you on that one lol
@@timh36 As soon as that happened one country would invade another and take it over with almost no technology. China has a 200 million man army on paper and they instruct those with no weapons to pick them up on the battlefield
That tank must have had plot armor.
Well of course. The Israelis are the good guys in like the biggest selling book of all time. I’m surprised you haven’t heard.
Their nation has the best plot armor of all time. It's the Creator of all things Himself.
Centurions are quite spicy.
We should put that on our tanks
Blessed tank.
He basically did what is called a pro gamer move🤣. This is one war where depression (gun) helped.
More like gamers pull an IDF move…
@opener of the world This is why u guys lose everytime, this kind of stupid thinking filled with pride.
@opener of the world
If you believe that i have a message from a kenyan prince for you.
@opener of the world The Egyptian Third army was still surrounded and they had to surrender. You can cry all you want about a battle, the end was still the same.
@opener of the world yeah we lost so bad that russia had to threaten the US to stop the israeli army from taking cairo .
dude what are you smoking ? , my dad was 40 kilometers from cairo when the order to stop came .
It is interesting how the UN pushed hard for a ceasefire only after the Israeli forces had turned the tide, and started hammering on the Arab forces in there own territory. Up to that point, the efforts of the UN to accomplish a ceasefire had been pretty lackluster. Amazing how quickly Israel's successful counterattacks lit a fire under the UN's butts.
UN in a Nutshell.
They always did that to Defending countries.
well what do you want, its diplomatic bussinuess, idk what do you excpect to intiate cease fire in 3 minutes and 20 seconds in midle of midle east
And most of influential countries in UN were and still are on side of Israel
There are still two countries with UN veto power who have no great love for Israel, and those were the ones supplying weapons and training for the Arab forces at the time. When Israel was first attacked, they were the ones that drug their feet on the ceasefire initiative, until the Israelis turned the tide of battle, then they were suddenly awakened from their reverie, and all to willing to move for peace.
It's a historical pattern that persists to this day.
Have this as a rule of thumb - if the UN calls for a ceasefire in Israel, this means Israel is winning the war.
The UN is better at mourning of the past tragedies than preventing further ones. It’s easier to talk about a genocide in the news, media and such in which they form some weak resistance that would never actually take action at an upcoming one. Hypocrisy.
Also noteworthy is that the Kibbutz (agricultural cooperative community) that Tzvika grew up in was founded by "Surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, former Jewish partisans and other Holocaust survivors". The name of the Kibbutz, "Lohamei HaGetaot", means "The Ghetto Fighters". This likely influenced his mindset and determination.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohamei_HaGeta'ot
What does your surname Keren-Tzion mean? Mount Zion?
@@slickrick2420 keren means horn
@@natiaron8617 Horn as in the instrument? Or as the animal body part?
I didn't realize many escaped the ghetto. I thought all fell at the Mila 18 sewage tunnels.
Lots of thanks to the Polish home guard who contributed about a dozen volunteers who were promptly killed by the Nazis as soon as they climbed the wall. So generous in sending highly skilled fighters.
@@slickrick2420 Both
Brings me meaning to "If God is with me, who can be against me?"
Indeed. Well said.
wait what? Literally every single Christian denomination in Palestine, from Roman Catholic to Greek Orthodox, literally condemned Christian Zionism as a heresy. I was raised Catholic and I don’t recall seeing one thing in the Bible that suggests the modern state of Israel should receive Christian support. What I do remember, is that Jesus literally said that His kingdom would not be of this world (see John 18:36), which puts much doubt into the claims that the modern state of Israel will be God’s kingdom. Not to mention that those who claim to predict the end times (which include Christian Zionists) are false prophets, as nobody can predict what time Christ will return (see Matthew 24:36)
I suggest looking at Stephen Sizer’s works condemning and dismantling Christian Zionism. He is an Anglican priest that has a good amount of credibility. Also suggest looking at what Reverend Alex Awad, a Palestinian Evangelical leader, has to say about Christian Zionism.
or if a god existed, who could be against me.
by the way, the same god concept was with every1 in this conflict. They just worship the same tale in an old and in a new form.
@V H it is definitely M a G i C :- )
you just ignore all the failed prophecies in the bible, and all the "fullfilled" prophecies in all the other, extremely vague "holy" books man has ever written
@V H and the “Word of God” can be interpreted in a million different ways when no authority is there to interpret what it really says. What have you guys done to help Christianity? Non-Protestant denominations like the Catholics and Orthodox made some of the most beautiful architecture and contributed to science and history. You guys just turn Christianity into a neocon circlejerk with no regards for the Palestinians or other people suffering from Western military actions abroad.
Having heard this story dozens of times (once from the man himself) I must say I really enjoyed the way this video was put together.
To this day many tank wrecks can still be seen all across the Golan heights.
Mark Felton is the channel you want then
@@Steentje06 Mark Felton is Pog
@@sannidhyabalkote9536 everything abt Mark Felton is pog
@@scheewheed8285 History channel
More like Shitory Channel
@opener of the world Who.............
Cares
Guys chill he has a good gaming chair not cheat Codes
skill issue
That sho't kal dalet probably gets enchantment blessing from god
@@gerrardfilbert1613 That thing is a basic Centurion. He mentions the absent of night visions. The Dalet variant is far more advanced, they actually had thermals.
To sum up, this dude is uptiered and outnumbered.
UN when Israel is being attacked: I see nothing worng here
UN when Israel starts winning: Ok, time for peace
Israel only exists because the UN created it, so I'm not sure what you're implying.
Also, even presenting it as Israel vs Syria is kinda misrepresenting the issue. The fact that Israel was involved would have been almost entirely irrelevant.
It's just another instance of US backed state is fighting a Soviet backed state.
As long as the Soviet backed side was winning, the Soviets were likely vetoing the ceasefire resolution (because that's a thing the UNSC allows for), because of course they did, their guy was winning.
Once Israel started winning, Soviets would have switched to backing a ceasefire, because duh, their guys are losing now. The Americans would still be willing to back a ceasefire, since the Israelis were still massively outnumbered, and keeping the war going would have risked the situation swinging back against the Israelis, and if that happened, the Soviets would go back to blocking a ceasefire, so, the it would have been in the Americans' best interests to stay in favor of a ceasefire even once their guys started winning.
This kind of shit happens to this day, i.e., whenever Israel decides to commit more war crimes against Palestinians, the US will block ceasefire resolutions so that Israel can keep doing whatever.
Go check your victim complex.
""UN when Israel is being attacked: I see nothing worng here
UN when Israel starts winning: Ok, time for peace"""
Lol! so true!
@@FNLNFNLN Israel would have come into existence with or without UN Resolution 181. Res 181 merely called for division of Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish one. The Arabs rejected that but the Jews accepted the proposition.. Ben Gurion declared the State of Israel in May of 1948 and the US and the Soviet Union quickly recognized the country. This would have happened with or without Resolution 181 (partition resolution).
How is Israel being involved irrelevant in a war where Israel was attacked by multiple countries? That's kind of a stupid statement. The Palestinians had a chance for a country in 1947 but their Arab "brothers" refused it. The Palestinians have been rejecting it ever since because they think that they can regain all of Israel.
In your world apparently Hamas and Hezbollah are blameless and commit no aggression or crimes toward Israel but when Israel responds to attacks in self defense that is a crime. I think it's a good thing to allow Israel to smash every rocket launcher firing rockets into Israel no matter where they are located.
Go check your victim blaming privilege.
@@percyfaith11 1) I'm not going to pretend I know enough about the politics of the creation of Israel to comment, but it still stands that all the entities you're trying to accuse of hating Israel (other than the Arabs already living in the area and their natural allies in the region, who's land was being taken) were instrumental to it's creation.
2) Israel is not irrelevant in the war. It's irrelevant to all the politics involved in the ceasefire. If the facts on the ground were the same, you could replace the countries with any other set of Russian and US backed states and seen the same outcomes.
3) "The Arabs refused a Palestinian state". Let's say hypothetically, you got a house that had multiple previous owners. Then, some of the old residents start moving back in. Then the city comes in and tells you, "Hey, that half of your house? It belongs to the old residents now. But you can keep the rest of it as your property!". You going to take that deal? Or are you going to tell the people trying to do that to fuck off?
4) "Palestinians have been rejecting a deal ever since". That's a flat out lie. Hamas has accepted a 2 state solution with '67 borders since what, 2011? Maybe a bit earlier? The only barrier to peace now is the right wing Israeli government that continuously pushes illegal settlements into originally Palestinian land thinking THEY can take the entire area for themselves. It's not hard to look at the local maps to see who's making a landgrab of the region.
5) Hamas and Hezbollah are hardly innocent, but the violence being committed in the region is hardly equal. Hamas fires a few homemade rockets that get shot down and barely do damage, Israel retaliates with guided bombs that destroy hospitals and media buildings. All it takes is a simple look at the casualty numbers whenever one of those flare ups happen. Look at the most recent one in 2019. Over 100 Palestinians dead, about 10 Israeli deaths. And let's not forget that this is provoked by the continual construction of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, and the displacement of Palestinians to accomplish that, let alone the blockading of basic necessities into places like the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
While I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge that Hamas and other Palestinian groups are wrong for targeting civilians (probably because they lack anything sophisticated enough to only target military targets), you seem entirely unwilling to place ANY blame on the Israeli government. (Note: Government. Not Jews, the right wing government of Israel, a distinction that has to be made because people like you like making SJW Victim Olympics cries of antisemitism whenever someone criticizes with the actions of the Israeli government).
If the Israeli government was interested in defense, and peace, they wouldn't be pushing illegal settlements into Palestinian land. They wouldn't be making offensive strikes into Palestinian territory demolishing entire civilian structures, when Iron Dome is entirely capable of defending Israel against the crude rockets the Palestinians manage to scrape together. They would accept a 2 state solution with '67 borders as Hamas as agreed to for a decade now.
While Israel was the victim in the case of the Yom Kippur war, the politics surrounding the ceasefire are a result of Cold War geopolitics; none of the local political or religious tensions were relevant.
In the modern day, Israel is not even close to being the victim. It may have been the victim at one point, but the tables turned decades ago, and Israel, instead of deciding to pursue peace, instead decided they wanted to be the aggressors. Having been victimized in the past does not give you free reign to victimize others in the present.
@@FNLNFNLN wait what country didnt get created by UN after ww2? sorry but egypt wasn't a country nor lebanon and nor jordan and also not syria they were all colonized by french and British and they gave them option to create a countries
Guess he's one of those people who prefer the term "target rich environment" to "outnumbered".
One other thing that help zika was the TAP pipeline. The chain link fence that was above the pipeline became zvika's additional tanks because after firing and moving a few times zvika's tank was dragging hundreds of yards of fencing that helped confuse the Syrians as to where and how many tanks they were facing. Just a amazing stand against the odds.
yes amazing that the vastly superior forces of he syrians couldnt work out it was one tank.... they had night vision and lots of tank.. but appears not the courage of the one desperate alone man fighting against them.... he used taht fact that he didn't have to worry about hitting friends to his advantage I guess....
i think we all put ourselves in his place and wonder wtf we woudl do.... i don't think i could have done a fifth as well as he did.. just impressive... mind boggling...
there was a man who knew he had to get in there and do what he could to halt the attacking forces to give his people to come to his aid....
just .. mind boggling.. when most people woudl have given up.... he didn't ... he kept pushing himself...
i just can't get over this.... what a dude....
@Željko Šimić no it was almost a regiment.
First time I heard this story. Where did you get your information about the fence?
@@rickjason215 book by Abraham Rabinovich. Titled the Yom Kippur war . Published by schocken books, New York.
@@mathewcaldwell2945 Thanks. I’m going to get it. They never tell the whole story or get the story right on CZcams. There are always major parts left out. The Syrians had better tanks and night vision. It didn’t make sense, that he didn’t use some trick to fool them.
Imagine that, a 21 year old kid gave them hell, mad lad material right there!
Now imagine an entire country made of men like him.
How fast can someone become an officer anyway? At 21, one would still be the same age as the grunts.
More like terrorist
@@addictedtofamilyguy7627 LOL! you are fucking rude! love it!
@@addictedtofamilyguy7627 oh another salty muslim i take it?
That moment when Israel starts winning and the UN calls a cease fire.
What then you suggest or would like to see?
a) escalation of the war where 10 or 100x more people would die on both sides and would be hard to prognose what could happen (imagine you losing 10$ or 1000$).
b) UN can't attack or it could escalate in Rus/China joining/help
and if your talking about ''why UN cease fire after some time'' probably its because they picked they troops and crew and went there to try to negotiate. It take time.
cheers to israelians that they fought brave and didn't allow to take its country as even nowadays its still possible..
Israel is America's prized ally. We love them dearly and they will not fall if we have anything to say about it.
Un are pieces of shit. You can't have true peace until one side is eliminated or dominate. Keeping two sides at equal power only incentivizes more war another decade.
@@jason200912 you are a mad man! would you kill/ launch a A-bomb on enemy?
Soviets and America had not chill time but it was peace and c we woudnt be there if somebody like you would be a president.
@@Handconnonierr I didn't say anything about an a bomb. Do you think east and west Berlin would have been better off never uniting? Or had McLean won the us presidency, do you honestly believe that a ceasefire between the north and south would have achieved peace? Because it wouldn't have. It would have led to more arms building and more war preparations and replenishment. Chiang Kai shek made the mistake of a temporary truce and it cost him his entire country.
I met a an Israeli man in 2000. The skin on his entire head, face, neck, arms and hands was a knarled and discolored mass of scar tissue. I asked him which war he had fought in and it turned out it was the Yom Kippur war. He was a tank driver and his unit had been encircled. His tank was hit by a missile and turned into an inferno. The drivers hatch was warped by the heat and frozen shut . His commander jumped on top and told him to hang on as he tried to pry open the hatch. My new acquaintance decided to say his final prayers as his body began to burn. He told me that an angelic figure held him and spoke softly to him. There was a second explosion as the tank was hit again and he was literally blown out through the hatch. The commander was killed as was the rest of the crew. Subsequently he remembers that the angel stayed at his side until he awoke from a coma in a burn unit three weeks later. Turns out he had been rejected during triage and set aside to die, but a nurse fought with the doctors and accosted every officer she could find until he was accepted for treatment.
Wow. A miracle. Lots of stories of miracles from the wars of Israel.
God saves the people he wants to be saved
love from INDIA to ISRAEL.
In israel we learn this story every year, its good to see this beautiful story get more attention.
What do you mean every year? You'd think everyone would know it after 2 years, but... every year?
I'm an Israeli and I remember hearing about it vaguely once and that's it
@@eranhaim9913 same here
Israel illegal occupation for golan and 🇵🇸 Palestine will be over sooner or later be sure of that the devils always lose in the end
@@onemessage5462 dude the fact you think you been there first doesn’t mean you have the right over that land. There is limited land in this world and Israel wanted a country when all of the land in the world was already settled by someone so wtf were the options? Plus Israel has deep cultural and spiritual connection to the land of Israel, but I think it’s ultimately about which is the better culture which gives more value to the world and I would say that it is Israel without a doubt. Islam is the worst
I was north of him with the 7th Armored. We got hit by 3 divisions and we managed to stop them all
Binkov: What if a single M1 Abrams tank was dropped into the Yom Kippur War?
Zvika Greengold: Hold my beer.
@@recur68 Binkov does a lot of "what if" videos where he imagines what would happen if modern military units or weapons appeared in historical battles.
This guy is a legend here in Israel
Exactly
With such a feat under his belt it's no wonder.
A legend to every tanker in the I.D.F for sure.
I am Christian from Lebanon and I have all respect to that man that fought for his country and his people and women and children. All respect to that Israeli lieutenant. Amazing story . I know in some time Israel helped Christians in Lebanon against that attacking forces . And we had people in the Christians armed resistance that stood alone against thousands of enemies and this story reminded me of them . Greetings
the survivors of the christian south lebanon army live in Israel today.
@@shimonbiton2163 we need more Christians here
❤ ya ahi.
Love, from Israel
South lebanon army of traitors
Man Zvika Greengold and his crew had balls of steel going up against those odds! kudos to them.
That's the difference between fighting For glory and fighting to protect your home and people.
this storry could be a good sabaton song :D
Indeed
Any title ideas?
@@Joshua_N-A Zvika force
Hell yeah, brother.
One man army...
I was a 6 years old child in a shelter under the Golan heights. Tzvika and his friends saved my life
Reading more and more about this war. With a tank ratio of 10:1 (Ten being the Syrians) + element of surprise + full logistics support, all against a thinned down Israeli counter force - demonstrates what exceptional soldiers these men where.
Probably some of the best ever to fight in a tank.
In a Israel we call this story Zvika Force. It is taught to this day in the Idf and in the Armored Corps.
The 188th was NEVER "obliterated"! We were decimated, but still a fighting force, to the day we were relieved by fresh reserve units. (Former Platoon Sgt., 188th Armored Recon Company).
Kinda nit picking here.
@@creativehorse7907 Unless you were there, or have been in a similar situation, you could have the good grace to at least respect those who have. "Nit-picking"? The 188th is an active brigade to this day, with different faces but the same courage. Try it some time.
@@greywolf852 I have not been in your shoes, but I dare launch a counter offer: you and we have different ways of using words.
Russia, deemed the most tolerant to loosing huge numbers of men and material, consideres a unit combat ineffective when it has suffered 50% losses. Anything beyond that is either obliterated or destroyed.
You on the other hand, state that a tank is either burning or operating.
Binkov used the Russian words. They sound the same as what you would use for a unit that has no survivors. Please accept our appologies for using words that cause this confusion.
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 The Yom Kippur War was an unusual proposition for us over the first few days, until the reserve units began to come up and the force on hand on 6 October was a holiday skeleton force. Two brigades with a total of about 150 tanks against Syrian divisions with around 1400.
7th and 188th were equipped with upgraded Centurions against T-54, T-55 and T-62 Soviet-made tanks. The T-62s had night fighting equipment that we lacked.
The IDF kill ratio was still 11-1. I seriously doubt if there was any kind of armored battle like this one since WWII in Kursk and Kharkov. Certainly nothing nearly so savage.
@@greywolf852 The only thing, going by numbers, was Desert Quench, but the quality difference meant the Iraqi forces might as well have used armoured knights.
Going by K-D ratio, only Bilotte's wild ride comes to mind, he was alone too, yet his tank outmatched anything the Germans had that day.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for the IDF and the way they held on, then and now. The way they use blitzkrieg tactics to perfection would make any old German cry, and rightly so. From your words I recon you were there. You have my respect as well.
Mazzel tov
A testament to the value of good training, equipment quality, and bravery.
Also at a certain point I imagine the Syrians have to wonder why they needed to spend billions of dollars on the military to get back a few hundred sq miles of territory.
To get back?
Its not theirs tbh
They lost it in a war they declared
@@hiteshadhikari the UN says does not belong to you.
@@TheKeithvidz UN says a lot of shit, but where is UN in Afghanistan
Btw do read UN resolution of 48
@@TheKeithvidz Syria now thinks it belongs to Israel. If you check Syrian maps, they actually say Israel has a couple extra square km.
national pride
I had the honor of shaking his hand, great work covering his amazing story
Today before 48 years I am 67 years and still remember we were told we are going to face a battle day no word about possibile war.To the memory of Colonel Izhak Ben Shoam the brigade commander to the memory of Leutant Colonel Israeli died in battle in Nafah, to the memory of Captain Oded Israeli commander of my armour unit in battslion 74 to the memory of all tank crews members who lost their lives and those who came back wounded in body and soul.You saved our state. reserve tank crew member battalion 74 brigade 188.
respect sir
Do you believe moshiach or whatever his name is lives?
Total respect from a friend of Israel in the UK. God was fighting for Israel in 1967 and 1973, and is still fighting for you today.
Their memory is a blessing.
Respect to the fallen.
Excellent and well worth the wait. Have a double stoli tonight !!! I went through US Armor Officer Basic with an Israeli tanker advisor - on our field exercises we fought officers with US Marine Advisor. The israeli advisor led us to victory and we learned a lot. Many of Comrade Binkov's scenarios focus on strategic views - but conflicts are won by people like this one man.
This is an old propaganda that has no support in any serious research regarding tank battles on syrian border.
@@alexanderyosefyakov-lev1307 Dude, stop trolling and shut your pie hole.
Destroying 20 tanks within one day, is the highest number of tanks that were destroyed within one day by one tank crew. Interestingly, I haven't heard of him.
Im pretty sure there was a german commander who had destroyed more tanks but impressive nonetheless
@@randomsoup9465 kurt knispel, I have indeed heard of him, he destroyed an estimated number of 170 tanks within 5 years. But Greengold destroyed 20 within a single day.
Talked with this hero once, very modest
The IDF's number of heroes are becoming hard to keep track of with how many they are. Then again, their bravery and dedication to doing their utmost best comes from the simple fact that Israel can't actually afford to retreat or lose a single war. Losing a war means they are annihilated. If there's no retreat and no surrender, for if they surrender they will get killed anyway, the size of their brass balls grow exponentially. Knowing the potential fate of their family should they fail is one heck of a motivation to perform.
And we also know that the only reason they didn't end up totally annihilating their enemies is because the UN stepped in to stop *Israel* from crushing all the Arabs who attacked them first, not to defend Israel from their enemies. The UN is trash.
Edit; Not the UN entirely, the USSR as well, thanks for the corrections.
Respect from Norway.
❤️
I think you will find that the Russians threatened to intervene if the Israelis did not halt their advance, not the UN.
@@Hattonbank Little know fact, their airforce did fight the Israeli airforce. I think it was at the time when the Sinaï was in Israeli hands. Unsure if it was a Binkov vid or someone else.
UN didn't stop the Israelis. USSR deployed nuclear strategic bombers and subs to the Middle East and threatened to nuke Israel, that's the only reason Israelies stopped their advance on Cairo and Damascus.
@@santiagoTo Fun thing is they'd probably have taken both cities if they weren't stopped, and the Middle East would probably have been better off for it. Also, added the Russians to my original comment, so thanks for the corrections.
Salute to the gunners and drivers of his tanks too. Training really does pay off.
Don’t forget the loaders.
After each kill the tank team experience points were going up and stats, reload time was reducing, accuracy was increasing, range was increasing, vision was increasing. By the end of his 100 kill the tank team could shoot 100km away, sight the enemy in 1 second and reload 1ms. Someone forgot to code an upper limit on experience and stats points.
Holy s-
Vulcan Cannon - FTL
God bless Israel
One Israeli tank commander versus 100 Syrian tanks? Gee, that's not at all fair, I hope those Syrians will be okay.
the isreali just have better gaming chair lol
made me laugh out loud
And how about the man who let this man reach the high ground in order to get the advantage. Go check the other side of your story!
Sure this officer was brave but it not the reason behind this "victory"
@@mohammedalakhras2525 Ohh..They had a high ground advantage really? Then why did they managed to kick your buttts outta the Golan height in the six day war, they had a low ground advantage at that time?
Lol 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Saw a documentary on this, it said that the t55s didn't have enough elevation angles to engage the isreili tanks effectively . . .pretty amazing
That's what happens when you put a giant gun into a small tank (relatively speaking).
I think you mean DE-pression.
someone actually speaking facts
I know it's just a game but in World of tank elevation and depression in cold war era soviet tank is really shit, soviet tanks are just great in a big plain, as soon as you have some hills you can abuse their weaknesses. Also their tank were really crammed and so the crew were not in an environment conducive to good crew work. Soviet tanks were made to just rush in mass and were crap for all the rest.
Age of tanks right?
I often forget that it's not just the commander but rather the whole crew which is the reason for the victory.
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@@Beaast007What?
There is a superb Israeli television series that covers all of this, it is outstanding. It is called “valley of tears”, honestly it is a must watch. Hebrew with English subtitles.
I have been watching it for the past 4 weeks, truly amazing show!
Agreed.
They will never be forgotten!
They achieved immortality!
There is only one way to live forever
Syrians:We have 1400 tanks,what do you have!!
IDF:We have the Zvika Force led by a 21 years old kid!!
it’s a fake story .
@@darkknight9924 Please share the true story with the class....
@@darkknight9924 Lol ur just mad yall Arab armies got whooped by a tiny nation. Bet u learned ur lessons.
@@darkknight9924 Someone's real mad that thousands of well-armed Arabs got beat by a kid.
@@darkknight9924 no its not its recorded
then if its fake how did we get the names you dimwit?
"He took the more damaged tank" ..respect!
Israel has a very strange history...Time and again the destruction of Israel was prevented by the thinnest and most improbable of margins.
When your family is an hour drive away from the battle and you know that if you lose it could mean the destruction of your country, your will to fight can never be matched
@@KillerMZE In the Yom Kippur war, the Israeli casualty is so high that for a normal Israeli citizen, either you lost a relative, or at least know a friend who lost theirs.
We have god and anime on our side
The tank commander was smart to use the weakness of the enemy’s tank which is elevation and depression.
Exactly soviet tank gun depression is horrible and the defending force in a hull down position in the wide open desert is like a dream but still an amazing feat.
@@myopicthunder It's always in the Soviet doctrine. They want tanks that swarms their enemies in numbers.
Therefore, the tanks need to have as low profile as possible to not get shot at. At the same time, low profile tank meant shit depression.
Israeli soldiers when they are surrounded and out numbered - fighting until death, even if they are left alone.
Syrian soldiers when attacked by 2 half burnt Israeli tanks - this is an ambush! retreat!!!
That's almost Biblical in the way it played out. It always amazes me the way Israel is able to stand on its own to fight a war that reclaimed its historical capital, and having done all stands a sovereign nation. We should never forget.
Yeah occupaing and murdring inccont, it's so amazing😒
@@user-sq3pw9oi8g what are you gona do about it??youve failed in alll fronts
@@r..6842 dosent mean we will give up
@@r..6842 all the world hate you, your the 4 hated country in the world
Israel would have lost had the US not intervined. The USSR was going to get involved so that is why Israel had to back off as soon as they mobilized. But really the US air force won the vast majority of the war.
"Remember your training." Good way to survive a war.
Task Force Zvicka! Mostly consisting of Zvika, a tank, and 3 other dudes. And not always the same tank.
They should've called it Task Force Chutzpah.
this man basically beat halo on legendary
Tank beats wraith
Tank beats hunter
Halo2 on legendary to be more precisely
@@yosefyonin6824 This sentence just gave me ptsd
I’m honestly impressed that binkov stopped forgetting to turn on his translator
@opener of the world Copy-pasting your message to places where it's totally off-topic won't help your credibility. Just sayin'.
@@Makky265 you seriously think the USSR supporting Syria and Egypt is equivalent to US/NATO support for Israel? The USSR mostly armed the Syrians and Egyptians with lower quality export variants of their own weapons and armor. They didn’t want their top-notch equipment from falling into Western hands. Combine this with the comparatively lower standard of training of most Middle Eastern militaries as well as tons of Western support for Israel which resulted in the Arab defeat.
@@nguyenbaokhiem6728 You did hear the part where Binkov said their armour also included Shermans? You know, the thing that the Germans called 'Tommy Cooker' exactly twenty years before?
Go on, repeat how the Israeli had the tech advantage....
" We're out numbered 10 to 1"
" Then its an even fight".
It was 100 to 1
This is how to do war. We salute you, Lt Greengold!
When you have 100 Speed & Sneak Skill with a Tank build.
Zvika force 👍 his team. That gunner, driver and commander. Wow!
You forget the loader/operator, without which the tank is not fully operational.
Each crew-member is an integral part of the combat effectiveness of the tank. No loader = no bang.
The fact that they attacked Israel in its most "weak" time - The 'yom kippur" holiday where there is no use of electricity, you dont eat or drink AND on a Shabbath - the jewish day of "rest". Combine these two events together and you get the israeli army, emergency services and infrastructure in its weakest and most un-prepared state. AND THEY STILL WON! Inspiring...
Remember, MoD Moshe Dayan even considered dropping nuclear bombs to stop the invasion. Those were desperate times for Israel.
They didn’t rly win
They had lots of casualties compared to the last war
Shows the idf isn’t invincible
Egypt had a huge political advantage
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel And thats how Egypt got Sinai back, making them equals in the political table, and eventually paving the way for diplomatic relations with Israel.
So technically, both wins in this situation.
@@darnit1944 agreed. It’s such a shame that Syria had even better weapons than Egypt yet they were the ones that lost the most?!
I dont blame the israelis for their actions recently. They literally are surrounded by many external enemies as seen by this desperate war in the past. Therefore they must maintain an iron grip on internal conflict(palestine). I await the angry comments.
I too wait for the 13 year old Malaysian's that can barely read a basic Peter and Jane picture book.
@Ahoosi Foou: I am pretty sure that by leaving Europe and the US to go to that place and "acting out" once they got there that they actually "surrounded themselves. The west chose to "fix" its own long standing, and self created problem (endemic anti jewish sentiments and frequent pogroms) by exporting Jewish people to land which had been long occupied by other people instead of doing honest justice by restoring the land and property that was taken from them by their own kind fellow white westerners in Europe during the rise of nazism and fascism. For some reason, white westerners, and their allies and apologists seem to believe that only white westerners have this special entitlement to go wherever they wish and to take land, resources, vengeance, you name it, backed by unlimited use of violence. Of course, there is always some specious justification for it which no other groups are allowed to make. Good luck running that tired game indefinitely...
@@dpeasehead This "colonialism" angle, doesn't work. Look up the demographics of Israel, it's not even majority white. Most of the younger generation are mixed race.
Also "doing honest justice by restoring the land and property that was taken from them" What land and property? most Jews lived in eastern Europe which was more war torn than any other region in WW2. The scars and trauma of the Holocaust meant that no Jew could ever trust their neighbor ever again. Most Jews fled to the USA and Mandatory Palestine as refugees.
@@hellfun1337 Israel is just as colonial as any other white settler regime, which is why it was so buddy buddy with South Africa during the worse days of apartheid. Never forget cuts both ways.
@@dpeasehead south Africa was separated along racial lines.
Israel is separated along religious lines (even though 2 million Muslims are full citizens). there is no comparison. Also, it's not a white settler state when most Jews are not even white.
That war was brutal my grandfather was a veteren of this war he fought on the golan heights inside a tank just like Zvika against coalition of Syria and Egypt army forces I was told he managed to defeat the forces and win the battle but some of his friends have died during the war. Since then my grandfather have been deprested and sad, my uncle was named after a family member who died, my dad said that he and his mother have suspected that he was suffering from PTSD, he was overweight, ill of diabetes, he smoked cigarettes he was himself anymore since of that event he unforchantly passed away 10 years ago. I wished that I could be with him any longer but that's life and I'm greatful that I've met him. I belive this war was very crual and one who shouldn't existed in the first place but that's history and I'm greatful that my grandfather was a hero that I could saw in my childhood I miss you grandpa.
All wars are bad.Your grandfather and his friends were heroes.
Much respect to your grandfather. If the enemy would have won, no Jews would have survived. The Arabs don't care much for human life. 🙏
Israel is just like a pro gamer
I live in Israel and they thought us this story, nice to see it appear elsewhere then in my school, great job
I don't think people other than the Israelis themselves will understand that defeat is not an option when you fight an enemy that wants you and your entire people exterminated.
yep, Israel wants to exterminates the Palestinians so they have no other option
@@user-op8fg3ny3j If it were true, Palestinian population wouldn't have increased by more than 10 times over this time period. Nor they would be making more effort to reduce civilian loses in Gaza than Hamas does.
You just don't understand war and blinded by sensationalist talking heads who are equally clueless.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j low iq take
Zvika Force will remain one of the greatest examples of superior training outmatching sheer numbers.
I support Israel they have the right to defend themselves from its enemies
Its the same with the arabs then
@@Mr.tuffaha Did some arab countries experienced being attacked by multiple states at once
@@aweslayne Israel have allies
They've got enemies 'cause they were terrorists who bombed places causing thousand of deaths they were no victims but victimaries
@@aweslayne Yup Iraq and Lebanon by USA and its allies. In Lebanon it was USA and Israel. You forget the many assasinations and sabotage by Mossad.
What an absolute Chad!
That one guy that needs to carry the whole team in war thunder is like:
Level 100 Marshal in a Centurion vs Level 10 P2Ws who bought premiums with backup BT-5s
What a great overview! As an Infantryman I certainly appreciate Tankers.
Thank you for your service.May God bless you and your family.
Israel is a bad ass crountry i respect them God is on there side
Finally, a video on the internet about this hero!
Many Israelis didn't even see this war as a victory because of all the deaths. This was such a tragedy it literally flipped Israeli politics on its head and brought down the ruling party.
When you realize that 11:1 ratio in tank warfare for Israel is considered a terrible tragedy, That's crazy millitary standards.
Props to the driver(s), honestly very impressive and probably wouldn't have been able to win without having a competent driver.
Sabaton: Write that down, write that down.
Please make a video on Battle of Longewala 1971 Indo Pak war
where 120 Indian soldiers halted the 1 Mobile infantry brigade (containing 2,000 soldiers)
40 tanks of the Pakistani Army
Yes
I agree.
Hmm that is where my grandma was born
I would like to learn more about your conflicts with Pakistan. Thanks for the lead. I will use that info to look it up. Keep up the fight against those idiots.
Bcz just like Syrians Pakistani were not Fully trained and fell into trap (unintentionally I suppose) that's why a training is extremely important
Long life Israel!
Well done 👍! He deserved that medal 🏅
This really makes it hard to say who would ever win in all these hypothetical battles you do videos on. The soldier seems to be more important than the hardware or numeracy of it.
Quality of your training absolutely makes a big deal. Israel requires every man to be trained to fight because they have no choice they are surrounded by countries that wish them death.
Guess what? War planners have to do exactly what he does except harder
Also, for every one of this guy there’s probably 10 who died within 5 seconds by some artillery barrage or sniper fire or something g
@@looinrims that´s right, the´re must be around 10 times men like Zvika, but is must likely that unfortunately they and their unit partners surely died because of enemy fire during battle, so, neither them or their collegues could tell their story.... Israel existence itself is a testimony of such war gallantry among Israel sons...
Part of Clausewitz "fog of war"
The operators are very essential not the hardware
next time someone says "israel only won because USA fought for them" ill show them this video
Israel has fought every single one of its wars by itself, and that's a fact. This video has little to do with this fact.
@ford the Egyptians were winning until daddy usa came so pls check your facts
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel USA wasnt helping israel in 1948, 1956 and 1967 and israel still won
@@fordmustnagisbestcarath5046 yea but… you were talking about 1973 so stick with it.
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel israel didnt lose in 1973 tho
We want peace but, unfortunately, our neighbours dont. We fight for survival, death is better than being ruled by any abdul. NEVER AGAIN💪🏻
We want peace
Your peaceful people brought WW2 to EU and after that war came into middle east
Even Mongols during Genghis Khan were more peaceful
@@Amir-vd1zf indeed, but my God did not ordered to go for war, people are doing it by themselves and not in the name of God,but your god in quran 9:29 says to fight and kill all unbelievers until judgement day
Lion of Golann!
The tank commander was more than modest, claiming to kill only twenty tanks. That’s impossible. Only killing twenty would not have had the effect on the Syrian advance that he did. It had to have been way, way more. Besides, the military estimates right after the war would have been very accurate, all they had to do was go to the site of the battle and count blown up tanks. The 40-60 count is accurate, and surely closer to the higher number. Sometimes anecdotal evidence is very useful, as in this case. He stopped the advance. What a hero! Twenty-four hours of almost constant adrenaline. That’s an amazing human specimen. Yes, it was his courageous choices that kept him constantly in the fight, but few humans can produce that much adrenaline. Even fewer can survive all the breaking down of the adrenaline afterwards into other compounds, many of which contribute to depression, psychosis, dementia, senility, and PTSD. Yes, he was courageous, but he was a freak of nature, with all due respect. That’s why men instinctively follow people like him. People like me don’t envy gifts like that, we recognize and appreciate them. I’d follow him over any hill!
Well said!
Someone said in the comments, that dude was born in Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, a settlement founded by former fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Jewish partisans. The name of the settlement translates to "The Ghetto Fighters". I can say he inherited their willpower, the fighting spirit and the never-say-die attitude of the ghetto fighters who fought the Nazis.
Thank you Binkov. Never underestimate your enemy, nor your self.
Believe in your training, and in your cause.
Peace.
And he wasn't even on the front line, holy crap that's absurdly high test
Edit: I mean he rushed to the front to save the battle
Praise God! The Lord is with Israel!