Danan, Yossi

Son of Raul and Gracia. He was born on April 22, 1947 in Haifa to parents who immigrated from Morocco in 1978. He already showed a talent for painting and a great curiosity about everything around him, and he grew up during his studies at the Dror elementary school in Kiryat Eliezer , While he knew how to keep enough time for painting, music, and reading, which he also nurtured during his studies at the Haifa Gymnasium, where he worked in the community center for the last two years of his high school studies, In November 1965, Yossi was drafted into the IDF and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade. He took a parachuting course and the Morse radio. In this letter, you are noted as an apprentice apprentice: “Your handsome achievement is the result of hard work, diligence, dedication and personal example in your daily work as a departmental apprentice, and your adherence to and follow-up by your department is an atmosphere of creativity and proper performance that contributed to the department’s outstanding achievements.” Yossi was transferred to the liaison corps and transferred to the rank of corporal and later to sergeant. Took part in the Six-Day War and was released from regular service in November 1968. Yossi found interest in archeological excavations in the Judean Desert. He also went down to Abu-Rhodes and worked there in underwater diving, which is aimed at oil exploration. But his Lev went after an occupation that could exhaust his natural talents. He began, therefore, to study the subjects of graphics and television. At that time he met Pnina, whom she married in January 1972. After their marriage, they moved to Ramat Gan and later established their home in Ra’anana. Two years later, their daughter, Mor, was born. In the meantime, Yossi fulfilled his dream: he was accepted to the educational television station in Tel Aviv as a graphic artist and prepared early childhood programs. His coworkers loved him and admired him for his serenity and devotion to work, for his delicate paintings, which could describe any Yaffa and delicate situation, his sensitivity to everything about children and teaching them. Television was a pleasant and beloved place to work. In this work he lacked human resources and expressed his personality. Each painting was related to its character and its look at the small details of things. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yossi was sent with his unit to the bloody valley of Sinai. He crossed the Channel and stayed there until mid-February 1974. He left the war safe and sound. But his luck was not in his last reserve duty. Yossi was one of the paratroopers who boarded the Hercules, which collided with Mount Hillel and lost his life in the course of his duties, on the 22nd of Kislev 5736 (25.11.1975). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. Survived by a wife and daughter, parents, brother and sister. His parents commemorated the introduction of the Haftarot book to the Chaim Hayav Synagogue in Haifa.