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Felheimer, Yoel

Felheimer, Yoel


Was born on February 23, 1928, in the city of Bavaria, Germany, to an old Haredi family in South Germany, and when the Nazis took over the country, the family left their city and moved to Yugoslavia, Italy and immigrated to Israel in 1938. He studied at the Netzach Israel Elementary School and was one of his best students, and he was a member of the ultra-Orthodox Ezra youth movement and continued his studies at the Kol HaTorah Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He left the yeshiva, moved to Tel Aviv where he studied the carpentry work to support himself, but he did not abandon his Talmud. The “Golani Brigade” and the “Golani” Brigade during the war, and participated in many battles in the Galilee and the Negev, during Operation Horev, the expulsion of the Egyptian army from Israel, the Golani Brigade was tasked with creating a deception in the western wing of the Front. On December 22-23, 1948, the brigade captured the 86th position north of Khan Yunis, threatening the road and the railway, and the impression was that the Egyptian forces were to be disengaged from the Gaza Strip, with the help of artillery and armored vehicles. withdraw. In this battle he fell on the day of the 21st of Kislev 5709 (December 23, 1948). Buried within limits. On the 16th of Av 5709 (August 11, 1949) he was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery

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