Son of Fania and Avraham, the fourth generation of farmers in Kfar Tavor. He was born on February 14, 1961, to Esther and Miriam. The joy of the father and the entire family knew no bounds, for Yossi was destined to continue the path of his forefathers, the workers of the land. The celebrated circumcision party, according to the concepts of those days, is still remembered in Kfar Tavor. Yossi attended elementary school in Kfar Tavor, and from middle school attended a school in Afula. In Afula he graduated from the son of-Gurion High School in a social program. His first-grade teacher said that Yossi was gentle, quiet and self-conscious. Even in his youth, Yossi did not talk much. The smile was sometimes a substitute for speech. But he was very friendly and always surrounded by friends who loved him. Yossi had a deep sense of respect for others, and he knew how to find everyone on the positive side. Yossi could not bear to hurt others. He was able to help a person in distress and to radiate warmth to his environment as a child and as a commander. In elementary school he was active in sports and in the social sphere. He read a lot: books, magazines, newspapers, and was infinitely curious. Yossi loved playing basketball. In his parents’ farm, he was his father’s right-hand man. He felt the responsibility that lay on him as the sole perpetrator of the work of the land, and sometimes gave up the joys of his peers, such as: cycling training to prepare for the competition, because the tonsils must be urgently picked. Love of the land was inherent in him, and he argued with his friends about the need to protect it from all sides. So Yossi wanted to do something meaningful for the state in military service. Yossi joined the IDF in July 1979 and volunteered to serve in a combat unit, and he was fit to serve in the naval team, and he had the right information to participate in a pilot’s course, while Yossi saved a friend who was about to drown. He was forced to leave the course and was given the opportunity to try again, and then decided that the Golani reconnaissance unit was the framework he wanted, and he believed that he would succeed because of his physical fitness and his rapid adaptation to a new environment. Of the IDF, he participated in a paratroop course, but did not want to be a parachutist: “I’m good on the ground,” he told a friend In the course of the training, he was estimated to have excellent running ability, a very good hand force, a soldier who devotes much work to studying the material and a devoted assistant to his friends, although he completed the missing and made the journeys and the difficult actions in a good way. The first was that his friends tried to convince him to go to an officer’s course, but Yossi refused, and the year of additional service involved in this course bothered him, because his plan was to return home to the farm to help his father, He would sit on the tractor. He was “born on the line,” they say. On the 30th day of his death, the crew told Yossi: “Yossi was friendly, he loved to help someone else, he was a model soldier, and he did not see the commando unit as a symbol of a team of recruits. For a long time. ” St.-Sgt. Yossi fell on the 16th of Sivan 5762 (26.6.1982) on the day he was supposed to return home after serving for three years, he fell in Lebanon in battle for Beaufort and was brought to eternal rest in Kfar Tavor cemetery. Married sisters, also in Kfar Tavor, and his parents published a pamphlet in his memory, which included the words of friends about his personality, from which all of Yossi’s character emerges as a good friend, as someone who loved them and was loved by them,deep. His dedication to his parents and his love for the land and landscape of his native village are also evident. Graduates of the Hebrew high school “Leon Pinlo” in Lima, Peru, informed his parents of their decision to call their cycle “Machzor Yossi Eliel”. “In this way, we want to identify with the ideals for which Yossi gave his life and which symbolize for us the drama of Israeli youth, wonderful and peace-loving youth, the warrior so hard to achieve peace. In this war, we apologize for having aroused in you feelings of sorrow and remembrance, to console us, young Jews, who see Yossi as a source of inspiration and pride. “
