Feilchenfeld, Yosef (Rolf, Yoske)

Son of Kata and Raphael (Bruno) was born on July 1, 1925 in Berlin, the capital of Germany, as one of two twin brothers. He immigrated with his entire family on the big rise in 1933. Yosef completed an elementary school in Tel Aviv and began studying at the Max Payne Vocational School. With the sudden death of his father, a well-known pediatrician in Tel Aviv, he was forced to leave school. Joseph volunteered for the British army after “raising” his age. He first served in the Coast Police of Sydney-Ali and then moved with the army to Italy. Served in the front and after the expulsion of the enemy worked a lot for the transfer of refugees from northern Italy to the south. At the end of the war she lived in Egypt, where he also smuggled refugees by train from Egypt to Israel. In 1946 he completed his service and returned to Israel. He worked again with his brother in the driver’s profession, as a taxi driver in Tel Aviv. With the outbreak of the War of Independence in December 1947, the two brothers were among the first volunteers, but served in various places: Yosef volunteered for the ranks of armored drivers on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem route. Was not satisfied with this and demanded additional positions. In January 1948 he was caught in Jerusalem with weapons in his hand and arrested by the British. For about two months he was detained in the Kishle prison in Jerusalem and later in Atlit. When he was released from prison, he wanted to return to Jerusalem to his unit and to participate in the battle for besieged Jerusalem. Since his proper education had been interrupted by his father’s death, he had to largely educate himself, and by his early military service he had grown older. In his civilian life he sought the convenient way for himself and did not worry about his future. But in the service he knew only one: fulfilling his duty to the limit of his forces and standing in every attempt with valor. Joseph fell on the 13th of Adar 2, 5708 (March 24, 1948) when he left in a convoy to Atarot. Near Shuafat, the convoy was attacked by an Arab mob and in the midst of which all its members were injured. With the intervention of the British army, the dead and the wounded were rescued. He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the 19th of Tishrei, 5713 (26.9.1951), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.