Son of Rivka and Avraham, was born on April 22, 1947, in Beit Hashita, where Yoel moved to Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar at the age of three, and completed the elementary and high school in Mevo Galil. As a student in the school, as a soldier and as a commander in the IDF, Yoel proved to be a quick learner, easily grasping his material and learning it effortlessly. School was the living spirit, often playing with pranks and jokes. He took an active part in organizing the social parties, in composing the songs and in presenting the skits. Yoel liked to travel, go on bold trips, climb mountains, and from his youth he called with special affection for everything connected to the flight and the air force. “The IAF magazine is my Bible,” he used to say, and he took part in the establishment of the Gadna Air Force, built models and blew them up over Tel Hatzor. When Yoel finished the course, he continued to guide his friends in a model building. A long time before his enlistment in the IDF, Yoel made his way to the IAF, but he was disqualified from serving in the IDF because of a visual impairment, and in late 1965 he enlisted in regular service, volunteered for a paratroop brigade, He served as an instructor in the IDF Training Base, and after three years he was assigned to a platoon in the infantry, Rose from rank to rank, from platoon commander to deputy company commander, and later as company commander. When he was promoted to the rank of captain, Yoel was appointed deputy commander of a infantry battalion, and about a month before the War of the Galilee, he took command of a battalion, led to battle and fell in line. “He is a master of the material and people, showing leadership ability.” “He is an excellent officer, who is mentally prepared to carry out any mission that is acceptable and acceptable to his soldiers, the owner of the army, the commander of the army, “When he finished his regular service, he enlisted to serve as a security officer in El Al: He still wanted to fly, if not in the air force, at least in civil society, and then Yoel returned to his group Ayelet Hashahar. Plan to set up factories in the kibbutz, go to work in a metal workshop and set up a family with his wife Edna Yoel was one of the initiators of the factory And he took part in the training of a team of workers and took part in the management of the factory, and was later appointed as secretary of the kibbutz, quickly adapting to his new role, During his years in which he held responsible civilian positions, he continued to study and train in IDF courses, progressed from position to position, and saw in each of them duty and destiny. At the kibbutz meeting, before leaving for reserve duty, his last journey from which he did not return, Yoel separated from the members with a few concluding remarks about his activities as secretary of the kibbutz. “I was surprised that our educational finished product has such opinions about service in the IDF and about the IDF itself,” he said. I can not accept that in our society there will be such phenomena, and we will move on to the agenda. We have to determine which norm is, that we do not go to the agenda and are not prepared to accept the army as something that deals with a system that is not connected to us. We can think of the government and the establishment today what we want, but the army must be removed. “His words sounded like a will, and the next day he went with his battalion to LebanonJohn. On July 6, 1983, when he went on a tour of commanders in the Amik region in Lebanon, Yoel boarded a mine and was killed. He left behind a wife, five children, parents and three brothers. He was laid to rest at Ayelet Hashahar. His family and friends published a pamphlet in his memory
