tip the scales of a skirmish. At 2230, he was joined by eight or ten tanks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Uzi Mor. After being briefed by Greengold, Mor ordered an advance. Most of his tanks were knocked out by a Syrian force; Mor was seriously wounded, Greengold's driver was killed, and Greengold's uniform caught on fire. Greengold took charge of one undamaged tank, while the other two carried away the wounded. He had to change vehicles "half a dozen times" as his tanks were knocked out. Greengold recalled in a 2015 Jerusalem Post article that at sunrise, he was part of a force of 14 tanks that engaged an entire Syrian armored division, "made up of some 100 tanks and 40 armored personnel carriers." When Nafekh itself came under attack from a fresh force of T-62s, he and others rushed over to bolster the defense. In a lull in the fighting, an exhausted Greengold got out of his latest tank and dropped to the ground, murmuring, "I can't anymore." Afterward, he claimed 20 enemy tanks destroyed; another estimate places his tally at 60. In 2016, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Nafshi told Israeli TV that then-reporter for Bamahane Renen Schorr concocted the story of Greengold single-handedly destroying a large number of Syrian tanks. Schorr flatly denied Nafshi's claim and Greengold characterized the assertion as a "blood libel" motivated by "a mixture of jealousy, evil and psychological problems." Post-war activities Until 2008, he lived in a Galilee hilltop village. He was one of the founders of the vegetarian food company Tivall and the managing director of Frutarom chemical company. In 2008, he was elected mayor of the Israeli city of Ofakim. References 1952 births Living people Israeli military personnel Israeli people of the Yom Kippur War Recipients of the Medal of Valor (Israel) People from Northern District (Israel) Mayors of places in Israel