Barak, Yehuda Yair
Son of Liba and Naftali Meir. He was born on October 19, 1975 in Petah Tikva. The oldest son of his parents and the eldest brother of his nine brothers and sisters. Yair began his studies at Yavneh Elementary School in Petach Tikvah, continued in the Midrasha junior high school in Kfar Sava and graduated from the Noam Academy in Pardes Hanna. After graduating from high school, Yair studied for two years at the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva in Hebron. Yair joined the founders of the hesder yeshiva in Ramat Gan and stayed there until his enlistment on Hanukkah 5755. In November 1994, Yair enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces in the Golani Brigade, where he joined the PFLP and completed basic training and advanced training in this framework, including a wireless-combat course at the 7 Training Base. At the end of the course, Of the company at the Reihan post in Lebanon. Yair was a reliable and honest soldier, always willing to contribute and help his friends, and he was a personal example. One of his teammates wrote: “It was the devotion, the stubbornness, the humility and the worship of the pious God that characterized you as a man and a warrior, as well as helping others, no matter who he was – a friend or not. A coat, and even after I told you, ‘Thank you, you do not have to,’ you did not calm down until I found a coat and I appreciated it very much. ” Another member of the team wrote: “I realized that everything that was said and told about the brotherhood of the Golani fighters is true, and all this is because of you, you were always there to help and you were the friend who could be approached in times of trouble.” Head of the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva, said: “His wisdom and his humility and the power of goodness and devotion and all his truthfulness, which radiated within the yeshiva, were a thing of truth, a true aspiration of a sincere desire to understand, to give, Without a fair amount of time – and Yair projected it. ” The head of the yeshiva in Ramat Gan, said: “Yair, the light that illuminated us, the light of Torah that is not possessed by the tools of this world, had the strength and humility. “The commander of the unit in which he served was:” Yair was accepted by his commanders and his comrades, and in November and December he was scheduled to go to a sergeant course and then to return to the company and get a team of recruits from the communications company. ” Yair was killed in a battle in southern Lebanon at the dawn of Hoshana Rabbah on October 15, 1995, when the APC in which he was traveling was hit by a bomb. Inbar, Staff Sergeant Eyal Sameh, Staff Sergeant Guy Hadad and Staff Sergeant Eyal Dror. Yair was buried in the military cemetery in Petah Tikva. After his fall he was promoted to sergeant. Survived by his parents and nine brothers and sisters – Asher, Hagit, Tehila, David, Netanel, Hillel, Shilo, Rachel and Yinon. The Mishkan Shalom community, friends and family, commemorated Yair’s donation of a Torah scroll to a synagogue
