Elmaliach, Joseph (Jojo)

Son of Emil and Mercedes. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, on June 27, 1944, he studied at the ORT school in 1961. In 1961, he immigrated to Israel with a group of young people from Morocco (when his parents remained in Morocco) and joined the youth group that was sent to Kibbutz Tze’elim. He joined the core of Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, a youth movement and was active in swimming competitions and even volunteered to participate in swimming competitions. To be a rescuer in the pool against his desire to come to the aid of others, and he went to basic training in the Nahal in July 1962 He was a parachutist and was a parachutist in the reserve brigade, and his travels, training and parachutes filled his life in the Nahal paramilitary brigade. Upon his discharge from the IDF, he was one of the only members of the youth group who returned to Tze’elim, where he came to work in the cowshed, where he met his girlfriend for a future life and soon married and began building their family’s nest. On the second day of the fighting, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), while he was fighting in the canals on Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, he fell in a battle that took place there, leaving a wife and a young daughter to be laid to rest in the military cemetery. On the Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in the booklet “Marinas Gabro”, which was published by the Paratroopers Brigade Headquarters and dedicated to its history and memory. In “the way” in memory of the fallen Union, published by the United Kibbutz Movement.