Bar-Lev, Yoav

Son of-Binyamin and Chaya, a working-class family that lives on both the Torah and the work. He was born on March 27, 1938 in Tel Aviv. He received his basic education at the Hasmonean school and also belonged to the United Movement, where he demonstrated his leadership skills and good spirit as a guide. He then moved to the agricultural school in Nahalal where he graduated with honors. A lot of reading and influenced by special numbers. Was poetic by nature and tried his hand in writing poems. He was drafted into the IDF in 1953 and served in the Israel Air Force, and he was credited with saving lives, and two years before he was invited to join the ranks of the officers of the State of Israel to mark the rescue operation. Because of his talents and intelligence, he was recommended in March 1958 by the General Staff, who went to the United States to study in Helicopters. At the end of this course, a recommendation was made that he would continue to pay for the Air Force, and after more than a year abroad he returned to Israel and continued to serve in the army. But on the 11th of Iyar, 5724 (23.4.1964), he fell in the line of duty and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, where he left a wife and daughter, who was only seven months old when they fell. A forest named for him in the forest – the pilots in Modi’in.