Bendler, Yair-Naftali

Yair-Naftali, son of Pnina and Aharon-Alter, was born on February 2, 1945, in Tel Aviv. He studied at Ma’alot Elementary School in Bnei Brak and later attended the Ort Textile High School in Ramat Gan. Yair-Naftali was the only child of his parents from the veteran Yishuv in Israel. He was awarded a national-Zionist education and together with his love for the Land of Israel and the Jewish people, he absorbed the values ​​of Jewish tradition and faith in the God of Israel. Despite the fact that he was discharged from IDF service during the Yom Kippur War, he served as a truck driver in El Arish, but found no satisfaction in doing so and asked to serve in Sinai. He was sent to an IDF unit that served in the 101st kilometer to Cairo, alongside the UN forces. On December 4, 1973, he drove a vehicle in which UN officers and Israeli officers were traveling on their way to prevent a fire incident. The vehicle boarded a mine and Yair-Naftali was hit and killed. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife, a daughter named Ravit and parents. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal.