Hor, Yosef (Yoske)
Son of Rivka and Benjamin, was born on December 1, 1915 in Russia. Despite his father’s opposition, he joined the “Bnei Akiva” movement and later to the “Hechalutz Hamizrachi” pioneering training group in Prague, Berno and Boskovich. In 1937 Yosef was drafted into the Czech army and served for fourteen months in an infantry unit. When Yosef returned to Hungary after the Munich Agreement, he was transferred from the Czech army to Ungvar, but he deserted to the Czech side, rejoined a training group of Hechalutz Hamizrachi, and on the day of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia he sailed on the ship “Colorado” and arrived in Israel with members of his training in June 1939. For a time he was a member of the Ramat Hashomron group of Hapoel Ha-Mizrachi. Afterward, he went to work as an independent worker in Pardes Hannah, married and had a daughter. Later, his family joined the Avraham group, then immigrated to Kfar Etzion, where his second daughter was born. He worked as a storekeeper and excelled in fine and precise work at his job and in Hagana training as well. In the winter of 1948, Yosef participated in organizing the Haganah’s supply depot, and he participated in Hagana training. During the great Arab attack on the village in the month of Shvat 5708, Yosef succeeded in attacking the concentration of the attackers and dispersing them and continuing his position near the mortar until the end of the battle. Yosef fell on the day of the fall of Kfar Etzion, on the 4th of Iyar, May 13, 1948. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949), he was brought to eternal rest, with the rest of the fallen in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
