Avraham Albert Mandler ( he, אברהם מנדלר; 3 May 1929 – 13 October 1973) was an Israeli

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. In the 1967

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he was a

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commanding the 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. This brigade pushed "elements of the Shazli Force and the Egyptian 6th Division straight into an ambush laid by Arik Sharon" at Nakhl on June 8, 1967. During the

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, Major General Mandler was commander of the IDF's armored forces in the Sinai. He was killed in action on 13 October 1973 by

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ian hostile fire, possibly artillery fire.Dunsten, Simon (2003). The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2): The Sinai: Sinai Pt. 2 (Campaign) p. 64-65. There are claims that this happened after his voice was intercepted and identified by Egyptian

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units using tactical COMINT equipment, who immediately transmitted his position to the nearest Second Army artillery battery, but this was disputed by

Shmuel Gonen Shmuel "Gorodish" Gonen ( he, שמואל גונן; 1930 – 30 September 1991) was an Israeli general and Chief of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. Early life Born in Vilna, Poland, Gonen immigrated ...

, who performed an experiment the very next day to show that the very brief time between the radio transmission and Mandler's death ("thirty seconds") was not long enough for such a process to have taken place.

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