Hasid, Yehoshua (Shuki)

Son of Aharon and Naomi. He was born on February 26, 1962 in Turkey and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1957. During the first year of their immigration, the family lived in Safed and Afula, and later moved to Lod. Here Yehoshua studied at Maimon Elementary School, continued and completed his studies at the local Hameiri elementary school. After graduating, Joshua began to work, first as an electrician and later as a carpenter. In 1970 he was accepted to work at the Teres-Chen factory in Tel Aviv, where he worked with his brother in assembling shutters in residential buildings. In the Yom Kippur War, Yehoshua was still a boy and not a soldier, but he made every possible effort to volunteer in Magen David Adom and also to distribute Yehoshua liked to play guitar, hear good music and watch movies, and Yehoshua was drafted into the IDF in May 1974 and assigned to the Medical Corps. After basic training, he took an ambulance driver course and was sent to a medical base in the center of the country. His commanding officer: “Yehoshua was a devoted and loyal soldier for his position in the unit, and he showed responsibility and comradeship toward his comrades and commanders, and he was pleasant and kind, a special and Lev figure in the life of the unit.” During the period of his service, Yehoshua maintained close contact with his family and even found time to earn a living, with the permission of the IDF authorities On July 21, 1975, Joshua died during his service and was brought to eternal rest at the Lod cemetery. Parents, a sister and two brothers, whose members named the wood in the center of the base “Hurshat Shuki”.