Gandelsman, Yanir
Son of Anita and Zvi, was born on August 12, 1960 in Kibbutz Gaash. Yanir’s father, who immigrated to Israel as a volunteer in the War of Independence, was one of the founders of the kibbutz, and his mother immigrated to Israel as a volunteer after the Sinai Campaign, when his family moved to Kibbutz Ramot Menashe. After the Six-Day War, the family abandoned the kibbutz and settled in Ramat Hasharon, where Yanir attended the Ussishkin Elementary School and the Rotenberg Comprehensive High School, both in Ramat Hasharon. Yanir made his last academic year in the framework of Shalaf (Eighth for Development Towns) in Migdal Ha’Emek. Yanir was a good student and a nice son. He was devoted to his family and loyal to his friends, modest and shy, but of character and self-knowledge. Yanir was a member of the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement. He was later sent to a course for instructors, completed an apprenticeship and worked as a youth counselor. Yanir took a diving course in Gadna, and was involved in surfing and rappelling, and his group was a member of the Harash group, from Birkat Ram in the Golan Heights to Santa Catarina in Sinai. Bar-Ilan is also a painter, and in his estate there are drawings and two oil paintings, Yanir was drafted into the IDF in mid-October 1978 and volunteered for a pilots’ course. Because of a respiratory problem, he was not accepted into the course, and he volunteered for a course for captains. After spending one year in the course, Janir retired and was transferred to the Armored Corps. In the corps, he went through the entire armored corps course until an officer’s course, and took command of a tank division. Yanir, in his love of the land, in the healthy and independent thought, in the ability to argue and accept the views of others, is an example of an elite layer of youth that grows among us, “he eulogized. His battalion commander after they fell. The commander of his company said: “He had a paternal attitude toward his soldiers … I remember the nights when he sat with his tank gunner and patiently taught the artillery doctrine … Despite the burden he was given as an officer, he always worked in the tank as one of the crew members, Now, he never knew that in the last opinion I gave the company officers, Yanir received the highest score – excellent. ” As a tank officer, Janir was very concerned with his subordinates, he was very well connected with his men, he was very disciplined and he obeyed the instructions of his commanders, always smiling and being admired by his commanders and soldiers. ” On June 10, 1982, Lieutenant Yanir fell in combat in Lebanon and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind his parents, brother and sister. A quiz with the knowledge of the land and the Bible is held in his memory every year at the Rogozin Comprehensive School in Migdal Ha’Emek, which is donated by the family.
