Barnea, Joseph (“Yossi”)
Son of Moshe and Hadassah. Born in Kiryat Bialik on March 9, 1947, he studied at the Bialik Elementary School in Kiryat Bialik, where he was born, after graduating from Kiryat Hayim High School. He also devoted a lot of his time to the sport of swimming, soccer, basketball and ping-pong, and he participated enthusiastically in several marches, as well as being a guide in the youth movement Maccabi Hatzair and after completing the basketball training course at the Wingate Institute. He lived and sang and always laughed until his singing sounded far away Faze him; on the contrary, there was always the first to volunteer for their implementation – and execution was wonderfully. Drafted into the IDF in November 1965 and served in the navy submarines. Of all the professions in the submarine, he chose the underwater role that is a profession that requires an intellectual level, and the ability to analyze the report and honesty – and these requirements were successful. In the Six Day War he served in the “Crocodile”, which entered the port of Alexandria after the “Tanin” returned home and did not tell the story of them lying in the bowels of the ship and on its floor for long, nerve-racking hours with deep bombs aimed at them. He volunteered for the submarine service – in January 1967 he was ordained as a sniper and then sent to England for training in the Dakar submarine and to prepare her for her return home to Haifa. In one of the letters he wrote: “We will not forgive them. We will only return and pay them back. “But his wish did not materialize, and as the submarine made its way to the port of the house and was found on the sea route between Gibraltar and Israel, the connection with” Dakar “was cut off and it was no longer renewed, on 24.1.1968, The Chief Rabbinate of Israel decided that the date of Yosef’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Since Yosef was among the missing members of the team, a memorial monument was placed inside him, In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in Eran Shorer’s book, “Six Days in Decker,” his name was immortalized and remembered by bringing his picture On 28.5.1999, at the end of years of searching, INS “Dakar” on the bottom of the Mediterranean, the depth of 2900 m planned sailing route and just 250 miles from the port of Haifa. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.
