Fathi, Yishai

Son of Tzvia and Naim, was born on April 16, 1963 in Bnei Brak. At a young age Yishai moved with his family to Ramat Gan, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. Like all the other children, Yishai was educated in the kindergarten, and later at the elementary school in Ramat Gan. At school he was very active in the field of natural studies, and was eager to organize the natural room. Every holiday and leisure time, Yishai would come to school and ask to help the teacher. He studied at the Ort high school in Ramat Gan in carpentry, and during his free time built furniture and assembled them for his family. At the age of 15, Yishai began his activities at Magen David Adom in Ramat Gan and joined as a volunteer for a mobile intensive care unit. He was a member of the “Amitzur” association and specialized in long and medium runs, collecting stamps and coins and lots of landscapes, and Yishai enlisted in the IDF and decided to volunteer for combat engineering because he learned that this corps Need most paramedics. After completing a course for combat medics in the Engineering Corps, he was sent to the Plasim course. In addition to being a medic, Yishai served as a cadet for everything. He served in the IDF for only ten months, until the outbreak of the Peace for the Galilee war, and Yishai fell in the Battle of Ein Zahlata on June 10, 1982 and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. “Yishai was a great athlete, very responsible and devoted to his role as a medic, helped in all areas beyond his job, was devoted to his friends and loved them.” At the Magen David Adom home in Ramat Gan, A library in memory, and in the “Mellal” school a study room was dedicated to his memory.