Cohen, Yuval

He was born in the town of Ofra in 1967. He studied at the Ilanot Elementary School in Afridar and completed his high school studies at the Municipal High School He challenges the real trend, and his educator remembers him as “active, lively, interested. Yuval, who was a real real caregiver, said he was ready to come to school, try to shake the students out of their apathy and help the student council move things. “The physics teacher notes:” Yuval was the ideal of a teacher, Not only an outstanding student, but a partner at work. “Yuval was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, was a member of the marine division of the Hapoel Ashkelon association and loved to swim, dive and catch waves in his windmill, , He loved music, listened to music and played guitar, violin and piano, and Yuval was proud of the garden of flowers he nurtured near his home. November 1981, and volunteered to serve in the Armored Corps. On June 18, 1982, Yuval was killed in a battle in Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Ashkelon. Left behind his parents and two sisters, and the mayor of Ashkelon, who eulogized him, described him as “the Yaffa and handsome sergeant. “In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the defense minister wrote that Yuval was” an outstanding soldier in the company, in his intelligence, his level of discipline, his level of performance and the high standards he demanded of himself in everything. He stood out as a leader, loved and accepted by all his friends, a professional and skilled corps that aspired to improve and to know more. “