Fechter, Joseph (“Yossi”)

Son of Hersz and Fania, who survived the Holocaust. Was born on January 1, 1949, in the city of Kassel, Germany, where he was three months old when his parents immigrated to Israel and after living in Haifa and Jaffa for a while they moved to Moshav Hatzav near Gedera, where they lived for eight years. One year later, they lived in Neve Sha’anan and moved to son of-Ami, a moshav in the Western Galilee, where he was in seventh grade and completed elementary school at the regional school of Asher Bergava. He studied at the local high school and spent another year studying the framework of the “Amal” school in Kiryat Haim. Mechanics, and various handicrafts were evident from an early age, helping his father in the agriculture and influencing his parents not to sell their rehabilitation, and he joined the Golani Brigade in November 1966. He had a “stubbornness” This feature has been felt all along – and especially lately he has found what he loved – living together from a brotherhood of warriors, among friends who can always be helped, to help them read encouragement, to participate in their joys and sorrows. In the Golani brigade, the Six-Day War went through it. He fought in Nablus, Jenin, and the Golan Heights. After war, he underwent a paramedics course and later served in various places, such as Kissufim, Nir Oz, Beit She’an Valley and more. About a year after the war he was wounded by Rimon, hospitalized in Poriah Hospital and returned to his unit. A few weeks before he fell, he became a military medic and went on many activities and patrols near the border. He was about to undergo an officers’ course, but in a border incident, when his patrol was attacked by a Jordanian ambush, he fell; The commander of the unit, in a letter of condolences to Yossi’s parents, described the battle in which he fell: “Yossi participated in a tour along the Jordanian border in the area The Golan Heights, when suddenly a fire opened from a Jordanian outpost near the road. All the patrolmen jumped out of the half-track, while Yossi remained in the half-track and turned on the machine gun while covering his comrades who had found shelter. In the process, the enemy bullet hit him and he was seriously wounded. He immediately turns to the hospital on a helicopter but dies on his way. “The commander continues to describe his character:” Your son Yossi served in the battalion as a company medic. In this capacity he served as a central figure in the company and was loved by his comrades and commanders. He was one of those few soldiers who shape the character of the unit … Yossi was a paramedic. His job was to help his friends and ease their wounds. But he was not satisfied with this and was eager to fight and volunteer for every action. During the incident, in which he fell, one of the commanders tried to move him from the machine gun and shoot him. But he did not agree. His last words before being wounded were: ‘When I turn on the machine gun, I defend my comrades in the most efficient way.’ We have no words to comfort you. “After they fell, his family published a booklet in his memory called” Yossi “.