Dov (Dubi), son of Rachel and Peretz, was born on August 18, 1953 in Tel Yosef. He attended the “Emek Harod” elementary school in Ein Harod, and continued high school in the “Iron” school in Hadera. Dubi was born twin to Ester’ka, and they are both brothers to Shimon and Idit. When his parents immigrated to Israel and built their home there, they wholeheartedly hoped to educate their children without fear of war. From his childhood, Dubi was interested in nature. He collected stones, plants and insects, and brought his “booty” to his parents, brothers and friends in kindergarten and school. In the yard he tended trees, animals, and sheep, and on the way to his parents’ room he collected screws, wheels, and scrap iron. For hours on end he used to walk around the cowshed and look curiously and innocently at cows and dairy farmers. Estherka and Dubi-brother and sister-were always together. As she worked on her books, he sat beside her. When she played in the garden he played and laughed with her. One of the family’s acquaintances said: “Dovi has never missed a festive occasion related to his twin sister, and even to the final parade, at the end of her army service, he arrived at the very last moment, with a smile of happiness on his face.” He was tall, slender and slender, and his hair fell incline on his narrow forehead. “Above all – hands …” recalls one of the friends, “big, firm hands that knew everything … hands that learned to hold on to the steering wheel of the tractor and the car …” The family recalls the “Saturday afternoon” apples cake, . All his life he was devoted to his parents and a loving brother to his brothers and sisters. Dov was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early May 1971. He was sent to the army’s armored corps and was sent to a back-up unit, but he refused, “I want to be a soldier like everyone else!” He said to his brother. Shimon, and added: “You know what happened to Avi and mother. Jews will no longer be sent to the gas chambers. I want to go back to the Armored Corps. “He also completed his tank studies course and completed with honors (95) He was considered an excellent gunner in his unit and loved the tank, his strength and his pace, and was known as a stubborn soldier, Who did not give in. When he came home on vacation, he sat with his family for many hours, told about himself and asked about what had happened at home in his absence. A year and only then we will become the richest country in the world. “When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Dubi was in the Suez Canal, On October 7, 1973, when Dubi and his friends were on their way to rescue casualties, his tank was hit by three missiles Sing the Egyptians. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Tel Yosef. Survived by his parents, brother and two sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. On his fresh grave, one of the kibbutz members said, “Dubi is not the sadness that has gripped him lately, when he envisioned the approaching war with whispers from the prophet; he is not the yearning for home, the company, the reliability of the catapult, and he is not just pulling from the hip to throw the truth into his face. , In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family at Tel Yosef, the unit commander wrote: “I knew Dov as an excellent crew member, and when he got out of the ranks of the fighters he demanded to return to his comrades. The members of the Sadeh family and Dovi’s friends in the kibbutz reminisced about his character and his wayThe “Ella Habanim” memorial booklet published by members of Kibbutz Tel Yosef.
