Bar-Yosef (Aziz), Menashe (Menash)

Menashe was born in 1949 in Kamishli, Syria, and immigrated to Israel with his extended family in 1964 after escaping from the horrors of the Syrian persecutions. Menashe was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of October 1966, when he was seventeen years old, and volunteered for the Ordnance Corps, after which he was stationed in Sinai and fought in the Six-Day War and during the War of Attrition. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, on October 24, 1973, Menashe was injured when he was engaged in clearing bunkers with hand grenades in the southern sector west of the Canal, near the city of Faid, and an enemy squad, hiding in one of the bunkers, shot him. He was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery and left behind a father, mother, five brothers and four sisters, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant.