Halali, Yigal

Yigal, son of Esther and Moshe, was born on December 12, 1950 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the “Hagalil” elementary school in Tel Aviv and completed his studies at the ORT vocational high school in Jaffa, with the aim of mechanics. Yigal grew up and was educated in the spirit of the glorious tradition of Yemenite Jewry. His home absorbed the values ​​of faith in the Jewish religion and the special customs of the Jews of Yemen. He grew up in an atmosphere of warmth and brotherhood and won the love of all the family members. Yigal had serious judgment, an original way of thinking, and was very clever. Thanks to his quick perception and ability to absorb, he acquired a wealth of life experience that helped him advance and establish his status. Yigal was a friendly man with a special personality who conquered everything. He had a lot of personal charm, thanks to which he gained many friends and became the living spirit of every group he was in. At the same time, he was modest in his manner and his humility reached shyness and seclusion. He was a courageous young man who took many risks in his work-when he was driving cars and sports-when he was swimming and fishing. He also excelled in soccer and light athletics and was awarded certificates of recognition for his excellence in competitions. When he was fourteen years old, while still in high school, he began working at the Leo Goldberg garage in Tel Aviv. He excelled in great workmanship, technical skills and high professional ability. He was therefore accepted by the foremen and created close ties with his co-workers, thanks to his personal charm and good atmosphere. Yigal was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early November 1967. After completing basic training he was trained to serve as a tank driver and was sent to serve in the Armored Corps School, where he was a conscientious soldier who fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him and although he did not like the rules of discipline At the beginning of November 1970, Yigal was discharged from regular service and assigned to reserve duty of the Armored Corps, where he was called for periods of reserve duty, after which he married Batya, who had been his girlfriend for five years since he was fifteen years old. They founded their home in Daughter of-Yam, where their daughter, Revital, was born in 1972. Batya and Yigal established a family nest, Yigal was the head of a devoted and caring family, worked long hours and devoted his nights to work, in order to advance and establish his family, and with his wife’s help he managed to turn their home into a comfortable home in which she lived Yigal found great satisfaction in spending time with his family and especially with his daughter, Revital, and was a source of joy and joy for his brothers and sisters in the Yom Kippur War. In these battles, Yigal displayed courage and fought valiantly and bravely. In a battle held in the Misuri region on October 21, 1973, Yigal was killed and killed. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife and daughter, parents, three brothers and two sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and was awarded the “Medal of Valor” for the discovery of heroism in carrying out a combat duty with a sense of self-sacrifice. “On October 21, 1973, during the battle for the” Misuri “system, the tank that Sergeant Yigal Haleli (Z” L) was fighting was hit. Together with crew members of other tanks, who were injured, took up positions in the center of an Egyptian compound and managed to fire with an Egyptian force that closed them. When Sergeant Yigal Halali, the first Egyptian to arrive at the scene, was empty-handed, the sergeant Yigal Halali, of blessed memory,Courage and heroism in refusing to fall into Egyptian captivity. “His family donated a Torah scroll to his synagogue in Tel Aviv.