Burgin, Joseph (“Yossi”)
Son of David and Leah. Born on Monday, 2 December 1939 in Haifa, Yossi studied at the Achdut elementary school in Kiryat Motzkin and later at the Loewenhartz High School, where as a student he was active in various sports teams and at the age of 16 he was coach of a basketball team In Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, to which he had ties from his youth (his sister Pnina lived there with her family). His first work was with members of the “Youth Aliyah” who were educated in the kibbutz. He belonged to the “Mahanot Haolim” movement. He served in the Armored Corps in November 1957. During his army service he continued to play in his team Maccabi in Kiryat Motzkin and represented the armored corps in the IDF competitions. In 1961 he began studying at the Institute of Physical Education at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, where he was certified as a physical education teacher. In 1963 he left for Lyon, France, where he represented Maccabi in the European Maccabiah Games. When he completed his studies, he settled in Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot and worked in various schools in the area. He continued to train basketball teams in various kibbutzim and also instructed their members in gymnastics. He also coordinated the sports section of the Acre Municipality and was a member of the Sports Committee of the Ga’aton Regional Council and Sulam Tzur. For several years he also devoted his annual vacation to collecting sports facilities in camps and teaching swimming in the pool and the sea. In 1965 he married a wife (also a teacher by profession). On the second day of the fighting, he was killed on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), and fell in an armor battle in the Armored Corps in the Dotan Valley (in Samaria). He put down a wife. Was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. In the 1930s, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot published a booklet in his memory. It was also mentioned in a booklet in memory of the residents of Kiryat Motzkin. The bulletin of the Ga’aton Regional Council was also mentioned in the magazine of Maccabi Israel (“Maccabim”). His name was also inscribed in a booklet of the Kiryat Motzkin local council in memory of the fallen boys.
