Son of a friend and John, was born on February 24, 1952 in Kibbutz Dovrat. At the age of 6 he moved with his parents to Moshav Yogev where he spent two years. After that, he moved to Netanya where he lived until the age of 16. From then until his discharge from the IDF, he lived in Hofit, near Kfar Vitkin, where he studied at the elementary school in Netanya and later in the Emek Hefer Regional High School. And was a member of Maccabi Hatzair in Netanya, where he practiced tennis, swimming and judo, and also listened to classical music and pop music, and was a quiet and introspective child, his friends were few, but their connection was strong. Yoel loved to help others: he volunteered to serve in Magen David Adom and took part in a first aid course, and his parents helped with the care of his two young sisters. In 1970, during the war of attrition in the Suez Canal, Yoel was determined to serve in an elite unit, and since he wore glasses he tried to discourage him from fulfilling his dream, but he managed to reach the northern commando unit, He was awarded medals and medals for his role in the unit’s activities in southern Lebanon. When he was about to finish his service he was approached by the Foreign Ministry and offered to take part in a course for embassy guards. Yoel accepted the offer and completed an arduous course, which at the end of which, in October 1973, was sent as the first Israeli diplomatic representative to the embassy in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. This embassy was opened and Yoel was assigned to arrange the first arrangements for the absorption of the staff. On the occasion of the political changes in Vietnam, the embassy was closed there and Yoel was sent to serve as security officer at the Israeli Embassy in Rangoon, capital of Burma. He stayed there for eight months, during which time he was able to see magical landscapes of the Far East and perpetuate them with his camera. He also visited Thailand and Hong Kong. It was evident from his letters that he had missed so much and longed to return home. At the end of his service in Rangoon, he was offered to serve at the Israeli embassy in Washington. He accepted the offer and at the end of 1974 came to the US capital, where he first met with his grandmother and aunt in New York, who gave him emotional relief in his service away from the house, and later met his wife, The marriage ceremony took place in Israel and the couple returned to work in the United States. Yoel decided to study business administration at the University of Maryland. Because the load was heavy, he stopped his job at the embassy and moved to work as a secretary in a large, luxurious apartment building. Then he ran a kosher kitchen in a Jewish school. In 1977, his eldest daughter Yael was born. In the summer of 1979, after receiving his BA degree in business administration and marketing, Joel came to Israel with his family and settled in Haifa, where he was appointed deputy director of marketing at the Lehavi Iscar factory in Nahariya. The United States, England, France and Egypt. His second daughter, Dana, was born in Haifa. Yoel wanted to live near the factory, so he looked for a quiet place of residence that would remind him of Hofit, where he lived until his release. On the first Saturday of the Peace for Galilee War, he traveled with his wife and daughters to Mitzpeim in the Galilee, in order to check the possibility of settling in one of them. When he returned home, he found the reading order on the door. He fell in battle in Lebanon, in the eastern sector, near the village southeast of Lake Karun, on 10.6.1982. According to his commander, “he served loyally and with great devotion in the unit, in which he saw his mission as a reserve soldier.” He was 30 years old. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery on the shore. He left a wife, two daughters, two parents and three sisters.
