Dayan, Yosef

Yosef ben Yaakov and Mercil. He was born on the 27th of Kislav, December 23, 1935 in Oron, Algeria. In 1949 he immigrated to Israel. He was conscripted into the IDF in January 1953. He was quiet by nature, and as a soldier he was disciplined and firm and accepted by all his friends and commanders On the 12th of Adar B, March 17, 1954, he served as a regular convoy escort, and on his way back from Eilat, Maale-Akrabim was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with infiltrators and died of his wounds.. He was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.