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Amster, Yigal

Amster, Yigal


Yigal, son of Dr. Roza (Abelov) and Shmuel, was born on August 10, 1953. He studied at the “Aliyah” elementary school in Daughter of Galim and later graduated from high school He was an active member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement in Haifa, served as a member of the Culture Committee, and took part in the ” In amateur dramas of the Kenyan Dramatics Circle, when he was in the sixth grade of the high school, he volunteered to work in Magen David Adom and successfully completed a first aid course. He also completed a special course for paramedics and for two years, until he was drafted into the army, continued volunteering, on Saturdays and holidays. To his credit records 250 emergency travel ambulances. Yigal was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1971. At first he wanted to conceal his short-term illness and asked to join the Armored Corps and serve as a tank commander, but his commanders, who noticed that every run and dusty place weighed down his breathing, Yigal chose a course for combat medics and completed his studies with a high grade (a-b), after which he was offered to serve in one of the camps near the city and to serve there as a guide for help But he demanded that he serve in the Armored Corps, and was attached to the Armored Corps unit and soon became a medic Gati, who invested in his new unit all his energy and eyes and was very fond of all his friends and commanders, and was awarded the “Operational Service Medal.” In the Yom Kippur War, Yigal participated in the braking battles against the Egyptians on the Sinai front. 1973.) To the aid of one of the strongholds in the southern sector at the junction of the Mitla road – the Suez Canal, which was cut off and surrounded by thousands of Egyptian infantry soldiers – the APCs approached the canal and began to climb the dirt embankment to clear the area of ​​the Egyptian soldiers. Yigal stood in his APC, between the two machine gunners, and assisted in the use of the machine guns, and he was hit by a bullet in his chest and lost consciousness. He was brought to eternal rest in the Haifa cemetery. He was survived by a father, mother and brother. After his fall, he was promoted to First Sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Yigal was an excellent and devoted medic, disciplined, orderly, ambitious and capable of leadership.”

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