Holoshi, Yoel (Dionis)
Son of Tova and Yitzhak (Ignatz). He was born on April 1, 1905 in the village of Spiska-Stara-Voss, in Hungarian Slovakia. His father was the commander of the Hungarian gendarmerie and responsible for the security of the district. Yoel graduated from school at age 17 and was accepted as a clerk to a Slovakian bank. Thanks to his control of all the languages of the country-Slovak, Hungarian, and German-he progressed rapidly through the clerical ladder. He began his army service at the age of 21 when he was sent to the Artillery Corps in Kosice. From the battalion was sent to the officers’ school in Bratislava, which he graduated with honors and in the military parade before the Supreme Commander, President Masaryk, he rode alongside the flag among the dozens of the best. He immigrated to Eretz Israel at the end of December 1930. As a pioneer and member of the kibbutz, he took an active part in the work and Hagana life in Israel. He paved the Gevat road, worked in Naharayim and participated in many work battalions. When the kibbutz moved from Nesha to Nes Ziona, he worked in orchards, but his soul went out into the fields in the valley. During his stay in Nes Ziona, he was one of the organizers of the Haganah branch in the area and of those responsible for the defense of the settlement. At his request, the kibbutz sent him to work on a tractor. He had plowed the JNF’s land in the Beit Shean Valley, the kibbutz lands in Tzemach and the Ginegar-Nahalal road, and when the day came, he was appointed to be responsible for the safety of the builders. On July 24, 1940, Joel was killed when Italian planes bombed the facilities of the “Shal” company in Haifa. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz.
