Amosi, Yosef (“Yossi”)
Son of Meir and Esther. Born on 12.12.1931 in Tel Aviv, he began studying at a mixed elementary school in Neve Tzedek and after graduating there he continued to study at the customs school He was drafted into the IDF in June 1948 for the Armored Corps. He graduated from the School for Tankers and was one of the oldest armored personnel carriers in the Israel Defense Forces, and was promoted to reserve duty from time to time, and when the Six-Day War broke out he took part in several difficult battles with him. Gafgafa, in the occupation of El Arish, in the Battle of the outpost on the canal in Ras al-Aish, etc.), and was wounded in the hand and eye, and later objected to the reduction of his health as a result and returned to serving in his company and fulfilling his functions efficiently. The Jordanian bomb squad, known as the Karameh operation (the town east of the Jordan in which they were concentrated and from which a rope emerged) The enemy of Israel), Yosef was head of a tank division and then hit by an enemy shell, on the 21st of Adar 5728 (March 21, 1968), he left a wife and three children and was laid to rest in the military cemetery In the wake of the fall, the commander of his unit sent a letter of condolences to his wife, in which he wrote that he would not forget that in the Six-Day War they were preparing to carry out a difficult task in which the commander assigned him a difficult task, and he remembers that Yosef later thanked him for choosing son of “He continued:” Yes, I will not forget the joy and happiness in his face at the brigade’s victory parade in El Arish, which despite his injury managed to reach and participate again with his unit. As for Karameh, he came out confident and confident in the justice of the cause for which he had to leave. He moved in his tank and fought, close to his car until he was hit and fell. “A short summary of his history was presented in the book” On Your Platforms Space “published by his comrades-in-arms and unit commander.
