Ben Esther and David. Born in Jerusalem on the 2nd of Cheshvan 5723 (2.11.1962), Yehuda’s childhood was spent in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he studied at the Meiri State Religious School and later at a high school yeshiva in the city. He joined the IDF and began his service in the artillery corps with the Boaz battery. Yehuda was a professional and devoted soldier. Part of his career as a fighter in Lebanon, during the Peace for Galilee War. When he was discharged from the army in 1983, Yehuda began working for the construction company Solel Boneh, and in 1988 he was hired to work for the Israel Electric Corporation, where he worked for about 10 years: Yehuda was a diligent and beloved worker. . You have worked with your friends hard, exhausting, and dangerous. You liked being with you, loved to be with you, loved being close to you, working hard to be included in your team, the same leadership, because you were a team leader as a symbol and a model … You, Yehuda, symbolized more “In the course of the years Yehuda knew about family disasters: his sister Rina died of a serious illness, and his father and mother suffered from the same disease, so that Yehuda could finish his electrical engineering studies in 1990. In 1990 he met his wife Orit and a year later Married and brought to the world two children, David, after Yehuda’s father, and Liron, and in 1993 Yehuda realized a dream When he moved to live with his family in Maaleh Adumim, a place he loved most: Yehuda was a devoted father who loved to spend time with his children, play with them and spend time with them, and enjoyed reading books, listening to music, watching movies and playing soccer. With his friends and family, and especially liked traveling with them, and volunteered for the Civil Guard and took care of his annual reserve duty, and Yehuda’s friends were a cohesive group, and their mutual friendship facilitated the exhausting reserve days. The number of the battalion commander Yehuda served in: Yehuda with his permanent smile, friendships and help to others, always stood up for reserve duty out of fraternity with his friends in the battery and recognition of the importance of service. Yehuda, one of the founders of the battalion, veteran and experienced, was one of the mainstays of Battery B and stood out responsibly and maturingly in terms of his missions. “Yehuda’s friends tell of his great willingness to help, his kindness and his being a conversationalist. Yehuda died in the course of his duties on the day of Tu B’Av 5757 (18.8.1997), when he was hit by a truck while blocking a road as part of the reconnaissance mission he took part in. At the age of thirty-five Yehuda was in his fall, leaving behind a wife, two children, six brothers and sisters: Rachel, Riki, Shmuel, Yossi, Flora and Ariel . After the fall was promoted to sergeant. His fellow reservists published a booklet containing pictures and friends’ comments in his memory. In his place of work at the Electric Company, a soccer tournament was held in his memory. Ariela, Yehuda’s sister, writes: “You are blessed with an amazing smile, a strong body and nobility of spirit / short-lived gifts of God, until that cruel moment. And give us sensitivity and sweetness to life / and we will be rewarded with the positive that will contribute to us and to society as a whole. “
