Friedberg, Yehoshua-Yehuda (Jason)
Ben Diana and Herbert. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on September 30, 1968, where he studied at the Hatikvah Jewish elementary school and continued at the Herzliya High School in Montreal, where he received an honorable mention as an adult who succeeded in combining sports and academic studies. After graduating from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied in a program for foreign students, during which he served as a guide in the Beit Midrash program. He continued his undergraduate studies in economics at Concordia University and graduated cum laude, all of which was active among Jewish youth. A guide to children at primary school-sides and prepared them for Bible Quiz and adults taught Torah. He was very active in sports, listened to music, and loved fiction and science. Every Shabbat Yehoshua gave lessons in the Talmud to his father and his father’s friends in the Beth Tikva community in Dollard-Des Ormeaux, Quebec. It was amazing to see how, with intuitive intuition, he imparts material to learners: teaches at different levels, clarifies the complex and facilitates the understanding of learners. It was said that he was a reading husband, a prayer man and a youth counselor. Undoubtedly, he served as a model for Jewish youth in Montreal. In January 1991 he immigrated to Israel and began studying at the Machon Meir Yeshiva. With the outbreak of the Gulf War, he felt a civil-Israeli duty to serve in the army, even though a tourist did not have to enlist, but he felt himself part of the people in his country. Here too, in the yeshiva and among the community, his good deeds stood out and made him famous. He taught in his spare time, at the university on the Hever program. Joshua was talented and he was especially remembered as a great basketball player. At the end of June 1992, Yehoshua enlisted in the IDF, volunteering for the Golani Brigade and serving as an outstanding soldier in his company, acquiring the Magist rank in the company thanks to his appreciation, honor, sense of responsibility and maturity and on the 14th of Adar 5753 (March 7, 1993) Joshua was murdered by terrorists while he was on his way to an officer’s examination at Tel Hashomer, and was buried at the request of his family at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. (Ze’ev) and a sister – Jennifer (Jacoba), who was promoted to corporal after his death. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “Joshua’s story is a wonderful story of Zionist endeavor and fulfillment, he left home and family in Canada and came to Israel to fulfill his dream, to serve in the IDF in an elite unit with many challenges. This miraculous dream was cut short. In everyday life, Joshua stood out as a true leader of the department. The peace of mind, the spiritual maturity and the judgment, all joined together. His friends loved him, and his commanders appreciated him. There is no doubt that Joshua’s path, a path of fulfillment and contribution, as a world view, as a way of giving more of yourself out of faith in the righteousness of the way and in its taste, is the taste of life. All of these we will adopt for ourselves are his friends and commanders, and we will send them to those who follow us. For then we will know that we have established Yehoshua, a situation that is better than we can not establish. I want to tell you that your pain is the pain of the entire Golani family that lost one of the best men and fighters. “The Minister of Defense sent a letter of condolence:” Yehoshua was a disciplined and responsible soldier, a leader by nature. A true Zionist, a believing Jew, and a mitzvot who put the values he believed in before his personal comfort. “
