Carmi, Yehuda

Son of Carl and Alma. He was born on the 17th of Av, 1907, in Hindenburg, Germany, and came from his home as an atmosphere of assimilation, but in his youth he joined the German “Tchelet Lavan” movement and graduated from a humanistic gymnasium. , Riding, light athletics and swimming, immigrated to Israel in 1922 with an arms shipment that was discovered and he was taken straight to the prison in Acre, where he worked as an agricultural inspector in Acre, where he worked at the Alfa , Draining swamps, afforestation and even arranging gardens in Jerusalem, and in 1929 was the commander of the Old City on behalf of the Haganah, The blacklist of the British was forced to leave the country with his wife and little daughter, and only after a few years did he return, because of a long period of fever, his health deteriorated and he moved to life insurance. He was a distinguished service man who demanded from others what he had demanded of himself and made himself. For many years he spent nights and days defending and trusting with loyalty and rigor. His soul always breathed life, and everything good and Yaffa in it-such as fine painting, fine literature, good music-was close to his Lev; But this did not prevent him from surrendering entirely to defense and security operations in which he saw his life-purpose. He always accompanied the Hagana units in Haifa as a compassionate, understanding and loving father, and at the same time he was a great advocate of discipline and training. In 1948, he was appointed commander of the Amal battalions in the Haifa district, and in 1950 he was appointed as the army representative in the Haifa District and chairman of the coordinating committee there. He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. Until the end of his life, his friends saw him, both in civilian life and in military life, wearing a uniform of the IDF with pride and a sense of mission, and he found his livelihood as manager of Migdal, an insurance company in Haifa. 6.8.1959) during his stay abroad (in Germany). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife and four children. Since 1965, an international fencing contest called “Competition for the Judea Prize” has been held in his memory, since Yehuda was the first chairman of the Israel Fencing Association. The family, friends and loved ones brings to mind one of his friends who is a former IDF officer.