Fethiye, Joseph (“Yossi”)

Son of Shalom and Gracia. Born on July 26, 1949 in Tel Aviv, he studied at the Bialik Elementary School in Holon and was a member of the Hapoel soccer team in Holon and wished to serve in the IDF as a combat soldier, In the IDF, the IDF seemed to him an expression of Israeli heroism, which he had learned from his teachers at school, but when he was drafted, he was not allowed to enlist because of a hearing defect he knew nothing about.In those days, after the Six-Day War, Security situation in the Sinai, and there was a great shortage of personnel trained in earthwork, but not every professional in these jobs was willing to go to Sinai and risk his life.For Joseph, it was a great hour because he was a tractor And he volunteered enthusiastically to go down to Sinai, the huge tractor that drove and dug dirt in the most dangerous frontal fortifications, his friends surprised by his courage and heroism, and he seemed to despise the death of the Egyptian snipers. His fellow citizens who were there and his fellow soldiers, all of them together were one family, a family of fighters for the people and the country, Joseph was Simcha and invested all his soul in the work, regardless of the hours on the 27th of Sivan 5729 (27.5.1969) From the bullet of an Egyptian sniper while he was performing his duties in the Dir-Suwar area, died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.