Son of Chava and Meir. Yaki was born on August 7, 1964 in Be’er Sheva. An eldest son with two brothers. He studied at the “Amirim” Elementary School and at the “Makif” High School in his city. As an adolescent he was close to the world of sports, received training and guided basketball. Yaki enlisted in the IDF and served as a combat soldier in Givati in the Shaked Battalion, a combat soldier in the Givati Brigade, and at the end of his service he was a combat unit noncom and a special operations officer in the Southern Command. He lived with his family in Livneh in the southern Hebron hills, and from there moved to Meitar, where he joined the police in August 1987. Until 1991, he was the commander of two bases in the Mezuz and on patrol. The years 1991 to 2004 were the years of flowering in Yaki’s service, in which he performed a series of positions in the world that “sewn” for him, the world of intelligence. He began as a detective, was head of a detective team, and then an intelligence coordinator. On his return from the designated officers’ course, he served as the detective officer of the Negev region, head of intelligence, and in the framework of this position, together with his colleagues Yossi Perinti and Yossi Cohen, 68 kg of heroin. Later on, KMBL served at the same time, and at the same time, in the presence of President Ezer Weizman, Yaki was elected as the outstanding police officer for 1999. He also had townships and then to the Lamed-Bet Negev, where he received the Medal of Honor for the liquidation of a suicide bomber In the south of Nablus, Yaki ran toward him, and when the terrorist tried to get up, he was neutralized until he died, and the bomb was discovered on the body of the terrorist with a power switch. greatness. One of the civilians aimed me at a terrorist, claiming that he was carrying an explosive belt. I got to the parking lot where he hid, he got up, I shot him a few bullets until he fell. “Between 2004 and 2006, Yaki was from Netivot, where he took care to eliminate the gambling affliction that swept through the city. Yaki conducted his master’s thesis in the field of managing change in the station, which is reflected in the field implementation. During the years of his command, the station recorded a decline in crime and won recognition on a national scale, as a station that provides good service to the community. Later on he was a graduate of the Department of Negotiations and Reporting on the satisfaction of learning and developing the ability to contribute to the rescue of man. Yaki’s subordinates over the years have said that as a commander and leader, he kept up his goals and goals while maintaining the path: constant action, initiative, determination and stubborn struggle without bias. In his service, he considered serving the community in keeping with the values of the police: “This is the way the policeman who enlisted in his oath has committed himself, and certainly this is the path of the commander who calls after me and directs his subordinates to march.” The writers of the South in all the media claim unanimously that Yaki Artzi has always been hidden to the tools and modest. Even when he helped capture murderers or expose the most complex cases in which he risked his life, he always sent his policemen to be photographed and he was left behind. On 28 Adar 5768 (28.2.2008), Chief Superintendent Yaki fell during his service. Forty-three in his fall. He was buried in the cemetery in Meitar. He left a wife and two daughters. Thousands of people arrived at the Meitar settlement cemetery to say goodbye to Mickey Artzi, including police commissioner Rabbi Dudi Cohen, who knew him personally. From the eulogy, the commander of the southern district: “In your special and stubborn way, you have been able to convince and impress yourself, from your conscription you filled a series of positions and in every position you gave the whole soul, your great soul. to be”.
