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Chalfan, Yuval

Chalfan, Yuval


Yuval, son of Hannah and Moshe, was born on December 30, 1944) on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Yuval was drafted into the IDF in August 1963 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he was trained as a gunner and then a tank commander course. He served as a tank commander and a noncommissioned officer in an armored corps unit, and at the end of September 1965 Yuval was discharged from regular army service and assigned to a reserve unit of the Armored Corps as a tank commander, who fought in the Six Day War and the War of Attrition. A soldier who is well acquainted with the weapon he commands and leads his people with talent and courage, he was promoted to enable him to begin his studies at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Natural Sciences in 1966. In 1967, after the war Six days, he married Yael and together with him established his home in Jerusalem 1971 His first daughter, Michal, was born in 1973, two weeks before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, when his second daughter, Adi, was born in 1969. After completing his thesis and publishing a study on the subject of “discovery A microbiological source of protein for food “, continued to study for the degree of” Doctor of Philosophy “in a research project on” Israeli malt liquor fermentation “in order to improve the quality of Israeli wines. He has a scholarship from the Levi Eshkol Foundation in the Office of the Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics Her. In 1971 he was forced to postpone the continuation of his research to complete the rest of his military service. Upon completion of the service he returned to his scientific work. Yuval was discovered as a scientist with an in-depth and thorough approach and was given a clear way of thinking and analytical ability, along with the talent to deal with technical problems; Thanks to these qualities, he was of great help to his classmates. Alongside his seriousness and adult approach, he was able to instill a pleasant and pleasant atmosphere. He had a playful sense of humor and was sometimes involved in pranks, whose purpose was to relieve stress among his classmates and work. Yuval was accepted and loved by his friends, was willing to listen to anyone and to help as much as he could. He was able to combine his scientific work with his family life and was a loving husband and devoted father. He was proud of his family and achievements in scientific research. In the framework of his scientific work he published several articles in the international scientific press and connected with scientists in Israel and abroad, in the fields of his interest, and with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, he was invited to participate in his battles against the Egyptians in the Sinai. The tank of Yuval suffered a direct hit and he was killed and brought to rest at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, leaving behind a wife and two daughters, a mother and a sister , And was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant:

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