Fleur, Yosef

Son of Malka and Eliyahu. Born in 1919 in Badarnik, Poland, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1930. He completed his elementary school in Ra’anana and completed his studies at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. When the National Institutions announced their enlistment in the British army during the Second World War, Yosef decided to enlist, and he received his parents’ permission to enlist and was drafted into the Air Force in June 1940. He did most of the time serving in Egypt, and belonged to the crew that blew balloons above the skies of Cairo as a defense of the land. The enemy bombed the camp where he served, and the building where he was was hit by a bomb and collapsed under it and Yosef was swallowed up under its ruins. He was laid to rest at the place of his fall in Alexandria.