Son of Esther and Gil Yehuda. He was born on September 15, 1985 in Ein Hanatziv, brother to Amit-Yitzhak, Tal, Yael, Hadar, Elad and Benjamin. Yotam was born on the eve of Rosh Hashana. The fifth child in the family – a gentle, thoughtful and loving child. His older brother Amit, who was born after three daughters, told his parents before Yotam’s birth: “I hope this time it will be a boy.” and so it was. From the moment his request was fulfilled, Amit took Yotam under his wing and the relationship between the two brothers was very strong. Yotam was very involved in Kibbutz Ein HaNatziv, where he moved to Kibbutz Ma’aleh Gilboa with his family, where he quickly became a significant figure in the company Yotam studied piano from the age of nine until the end of 12th grade. He loved classical music very much, which was very connected to his father’s grandfather. A very special relationship was created between the two, despite the age gap and the grandfather’s difficulty in the Hebrew language. Yotam was evident to those around him with his smile, his kindness and the joy of life. He was loved by the youth and the adults, sang and played with great talent and was a great Torah reading and Torah scholar. Was not afraid to introduce new and refreshing tunes in his prayer that breathed life into the prayers of Shabbat and festivals. Like his other siblings, Yotam attended elementary school in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, where he studied Gemara with a friend 40 years older than him, and enjoyed the study of the havruta. Yotam’s ability to connect with anyone at any age was one of his main characteristics: In 1995, his older brother, Amit, apparently committed suicide during his army service, and after his death Amit continued to serve as a role model for Yotam. “In 2005, Yotam wrote:” This is Amit, I won, I passed you. I am already nineteen and seven months old, and you stop at around nineteen and six months … “Yotam went on to high school in the 11th grade and left for a month of yeshiva study in Ma’aleh Adumim, His soul for the study of Torah and religion. When he completed his studies, he went to study at Otniel Yeshiva. Where he debated whether to go to the arrangement track, a five-year route or to do regular military service. In the end, he served in the settlement track of the Otniel yeshiva, and was well integrated into the yeshiva. After a year of study, on July 7, 2004, he began to work in education, teaching and command in uniform, within the framework of the Education Corps. Yotam was one of the first in the course in which hesder yeshiva students were integrated into a course aimed at training commanders to complete their education and impart Hebrew to soldiers with unique characteristics and needs. Yotam saw this track as an opportunity to combine Torah study with meaningful and meaningful educational work. Yotam’s special qualities were expressed both as an apprentice and as a commander. During the course of his military service, Alon taught soldiers who completed 12 years of schooling, most of them Bedouin, some of them veteran immigrants, and in 2006 the family traveled to France to visit the family of Father Gil Yotam. Despite his lack of knowledge of the French language, When he returned to Israel, Yotam kept in contact with the French family when he wrote in Hebrew and his father translated to French, and in 2007 he married Ayala, his classmate, “I envied the simplicity and honesty that I have felt among you. That I, the innocent, the humble child, can not experience such a deep relationship and have an honest and mature relationship with a girl, Per Zwi Brenner, a member of the yeshiva, and Yotam and Ayala signed an agreement for mutual respect in addition to the traditional Ketubah: The couple decided that their joint family name would be double:Fleck. After the marriage, they moved to Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, where Yotam studied for a short time at the Maale Gilboa Yeshiva. Later they moved to Be’er Sheva and Yotam returned to study at the Otniel Yeshiva as part of his commitment to the program of military service and yeshiva studies. Yotam guided the students of the Shaked School who came there for a month’s program, as he did when he was in the 11th grade. In addition, Yotam Otniel inaugurated elementary school students who had difficulty learning. Two of his students wrote to the family after his death: “We were privileged to work with Yotam this year … Yotam was our mentor at the school … We loved playing with Yotam, and all week we waited for him to work with him. To work with us … We will remember him and think about the good things he did for us. ” While studying at the Otniel Yeshiva, Yotam experienced many pressures and conflicts. His aspiration for the perfection of action and giving led him to a situation in which he judged himself severely without any justification for reality. Yotam tried to take care of himself and turned to help, but in a moment of weakness he committed suicide. Sergeant Yotam Alexander-Falk fell during his service on the 26th of Adar 5768 (March 3, 2008), aged twenty-two and a half was in his fall. Was buried in the Ein Hanatziv cemetery and left behind a wife, parents, three sisters and two brothers, his mother Esther said with pain: “How will you be orphaned? I know you suffered, you were full of pain. I know that you did everything in order to be cured, but in the end you gave up your desire to stop your suffering and you lost the strength to wait for healing. “His father Gil eulogized him:” My beloved son Yotam … You behaved like an older brother, On everyone. How much love did your parents give you, your beloved Lila, all your brothers, nephews, Grandpa Gerrer, who loved talking to you about music, history, grandmother Silvi, Grandma Gita, and all the family. You, you and you, have shared with us and Ayala your distress, we tried to help and we did not succeed, even though you said that the way in which Amit died Is not a role model, in a moment of crisis, in the middle of prayer, in a conversation you have with the Creator, you break down. ” His sister Yael Lehman eulogized him: “You were a happy boy and boy, full of life, loving life, loving, happy and happy, and you were so serious, heavy, , A 10-year-old boy who has experienced a painful separation from an older and esteemed brother, is apparently a different child, a child who decides to take the place of someone who is not, to try to give back to father and mother the joy of life, the music at home, The flute and the clarinet, slowly forming your own identity, beauty and blessed talents, with endless devotion to your father and mother.It has not been a year since you and Ayala stood under the canopy, loving, excited I have known honestly how you have fought in the evil spirit, and you have not been able to … I am sure that you, who experienced the pain yourself, that you saw their pain You do not want to get to where you have come from, but there are apparently great forces that have overwhelmed you, we will never know, and now that you do not answer, I ask all your young friends for a clear and unequivocal reading: This is not the way. Yotam, my beloved brother. “
