Rafael, son of Dvora and Yosef Cohen, was born in 1927 in Yavne’el. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the Golani Brigade and participated in various activities. Rafael would go out to fight enthusiastically. He fell in battle on the 2nd of Sivan (June 9, 1948). Rafael was brought to rest in the cemetery in Beit Gan.