Golan Heights: Episode 17 — The Valley of Tears
The Valley of Tears became the symbolic center of the Golan Heights campaign, where Israeli defenders in the northern sector faced repeated Syrian armored attacks across terrain that became a field of wreckage, smoke, and exhaustion. This centerpiece episode follows the 7th Armored Brigade, Avigdor Ben-Gal, Avigdor Kahalani, and the tank crews who used ridges, prepared positions, gunnery, and local initiative to stop a larger attacking force. The valley’s importance lies in its terrible concentration of tactical and strategic stakes: one contested space where terrain, time, national survival, and modern armored doctrine seemed to meet. It was not a clean victory scene, but a costly defensive stand that showed how narrow the margin between holding and collapse could be. For more military history writing and books, visit MilitaryAuthor.me, and for magazines, galleries, and a massive archive of military photos and video, visit Trackpads.com.
