Amnon Reshef

The brigade crossed the Suez Canal on October 19, captured the Orcha locality, and continued fighting in the outskirts of Ismailia until the end of the war.

The brigade suffered heavy losses: 390 killed (94 on the first day of the fighting and 121 on the night of the October 15–16 breakthrough) and in the crossing battle in the Chinese Farm area.

In February 1982, four months before the outbreak of the First Lebanon War, he passed on the Armored Corps command to Major General Moshe Bar-Kochba (Brill) and took a study leave.

After retiring from the IDF, Reshef worked as an executive vice president at Urdan Metal and Casting Industries Ltd. that was involved in the Merkava ("Chariot") tank production.

In November 2014 Reshef wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to engage moderate Arab countries and launch a courageous peace initiative with the Palestinians, promising to support him if he does.

Within a couple of days, over one-hundred retired IDF generals and equivalents from Mossad, Internal Security (Shabak) and police, joined Reshef in signing the letter.

The movement has been addressing the national leadership, opinion shapers, and the general public in promoting the strategic objective of a two-state solution in a regional context.

In so doing, the movement has embraced and promotes a two phase strategy: first, as conditions are not ripe for an agreed two-state agreement, steps must be taken to keep that option open while enhancing Israelis’ security and Palestinians’ hope and daily lives.

For the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War (2013), the field artist Peter Weiner from Kibbutz Maoz Haim commemorated the heroic combat record of the 14th Brigade and its commander.