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Amsalem, Yechiel (“Amasa”, “Long Live”)

Amsalem, Yechiel (“Amasa”, “Long Live”)

Son of Shimon and Yael. He was born on March 21, 1939 in Haifa, and after graduating from the “Torat Emet” elementary school he enrolled at the Reali School and studied in the framework of his military boarding school. In August 1958 he was drafted into the IDF and after compulsory service he continued his career in the army. His cheerfulness and mischievousness clung to all his men. Quickly he would receive orders and operations, and with that smile on his lips, because under a hard shell that enveloped him lay a gentle, poetic, sentimental soul, as the commander of the unit wrote to another who fell. On the first day of the Six-Day War, on the 5th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), “a battle was held at the Hirbat Daraj post in the vicinity of Gaza and as commander of his company, Yechiel attacked the outpost and ran forward. When he was exposed to enemy fire, . Was buried in the military emergency cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. After they fell they were promoted to the rank of major.

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