Cohen, Yehuda

Son of Miriam and successful, was born on June 15, 1944 in Beirut, Lebanon, and on Lebanese soil he fell. Was a well-developed child and at the age of 4c he was accepted to the Alliance Israelite Universelle school in his hometown. His parents were enthusiastic Zionists, and after a period of imprisonment for their activities, the family immigrated to Israel after Rosh Ha’Nikra was established. The family settled in the Beer Yaakov transit camp and then moved to Tel Aviv. Yehuda, who was only 16 years old, took the matriculation exams at the “Shevach” vocational school in Tel Aviv and acquired a profession as an electrician. From a young age he worked in his profession. Yehuda was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in mid-May 1962 and served in the Signal Corps, where he underwent various professional courses and was promoted to the rank of commander of the army. In November 1964, Yehuda was discharged from regular service and began to work as a technician in the physics lab at Tel Aviv University, where he worked as a trainee at the same university, and from time to time he was called up for reserve duty and participated in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. He settled in the Golan and settled with his family, which grew up among me Yam, in Moshav Bnei Yehuda, where he worked as an electrician in the Degania A. Group His wife was a senior clerk in the offices of the National Insurance Institute in Tiberias, and during the service he offered an efficiency program “He wanted to serve the homeland and agreed to go to any place where they would send him.” Yehuda was a cheerful and good-natured guy, and when he asked someone who was one of them The members of Degania Aleph, if she knows Yehuda, replied: “Ah, the Simcha electrician Yehuda, who always smiles?” The house of Haya and Yehud Was wide open and was crowded with guests hamlets deposits. On 26 November 1984, the First Sergeant Yehuda fell in battle in Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, his first grave in Moshav Bnei Yehuda, leaving behind a wife and five sons and daughters, parents, two brothers and a sister, “He was defined as an excellent soldier, always involved in the unit, cheerful and full of joy. This joy made him many friends and turned the service close to joy. “The commander of his unit wrote in a letter of condolence to the family:” Yehuda wanted to serve the homeland in every way and every opportunity. This daring was exemplary. He was cheerful and full of life. In this gaiety, he enjoyed being with his comrades in arms. It was always possible to find him wherever he needed help, whether in defense or in social life. “His family and residents took out a pamphlet in his memory that read”