Goldberg, Yosef (Yoske)
Son of Berta and Yitzhak HaLevi was born on September 23, 1924 in Petach Tikva, the son of the moshavim of the moshava and Vatikia. He studied at the PICA school and at the Ahad Ha’am Gymnasium, and as a member of the Maccabi-Avshalom sports association he devoted himself to the body culture and was particularly successful in the swimming industry, where he achieved world records and became a teacher for others. In July 1947, when he was a member of the Haganah, he joined the Hagana, and the British surrounded Shefayim and Givat Haim in search of Haganah weapons. Before the outbreak of the War of Independence, he went down to the Negev and worked as a main generator in the construction of the water pools in the new settlements. In his diary, Yosef describes one of the days of the heavy bombardment of Nir Am, when he repaired the excavator at night and dug many defensive trenches in the city, and in light of his work, The day of the dawn was marked by the heavy shelling that hit the agriculture, and he jumped from high to ditch and carried wounded soldiers, seeing around him the best of his fallen comrades, who was killed shortly before he was about to set up a house in an accident on Petach Tikvah – (18.9.1948) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva.
