Haviv, Yehuda
Son of Lucian and Yaffa. He was born on June 1, 1957 in Tunis, where he immigrated to Israel and settled in Dimona, where he grew up and grew up with the new city, which was established in the desert, where he moved to the Afikim elementary school. And he went on to study in a vocational school in Be’er Sheva, where he chose to specialize in the field of electrical equipment, and Yehuda was a boy who was entirely on the ground of reality. And to re-assemble them, and thus he was more eager than learning theoretical material, although in the last chapter of his young life his taste changed: he even read a lot He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved vehalomed youth movement, and as a teenager he served as a guide, and Yehuda was blessed with a strong and healthy body and devoted himself to many sports, especially to light athletics. He won the Negev School Championship, and was outstanding as a student of criticism and did not take everything for granted: he was original in his approach to the subject matter, and in every subject he knew how to express opinions of his own. They all said that Yehuda is like his name: Habib. When he reached the army in February 1975, Yehuda volunteered for the paratroopers, and his strength and skill in sports made it easier for him to help with his hard work. He received a platoon and a platoon commander’s course and received the rank of corporal. He was already a sergeant when he left, in the spring of 1977, with his unit for an exercise in the Jordan Valley. On his way back to the base he boarded a helicopter that went up in flames near Jericho and all its passengers perished. On May 23, 1977, Yehuda was killed while carrying out a helicopter crash in the Jordan Valley, where 54 soldiers were killed and brought to rest in the military section of the cemetery in Dimona, leaving behind parents, three sisters and two brothers His family commemorated the donation of accessories to a local synagogue.
