Hutner, Yona (‘Yoni’)

Son of Avraham and Yaffa. He was born on 19.12.1953 in Tel Aviv. He was named after his grandfather, who fell as a partisan in the forests of Ukraine in his fight against the Nazi oppressor, and graduated with honors, and won first prizes in various public quizzes, and later studied at the religious seminary of Noam in Pardes Hanna. In late February 1972, Yoni was drafted into the IDF and assigned to the Artillery Corps. At the end of March, he completed basic training and was accepted to a course for car-guns. He was then sent to the northern front and held various positions as an artillery officer, and at the beginning of November 1973, the participants in the course at Ovdat were assembled and their rank was awarded, and Yoni was promoted to lieutenant- After a short stay in the south, Yoni was sent back to the north, where the War of Attrition took place at all times, and was attached to an infantry unit that was active in the sector in the war against the Syrians. In November 1974, he received the rank of lieutenant, and at this stage June was engaged with his choice of Lev, and the two began to plan their wedding and their shared lives Yoni wrote as a student at the Bar-Ilan University in accountancy and economics, but his superiors in the army put their eye on the talented and dedicated officer, who knew how to fulfill any role he was assigned in full, and suggested that he continue to serve as commanding officer of the Bar-Ilan University Yoni had a hard time refusing this offer because of the security situation in the country and agreed to sign a permanent one-year term. In a complete space. The work continued to grow when the interim agreement with Egypt was delineated and a large number of outposts had to be evacuated. In the midst of the frenzy of action, Yoni’s life was reduced by an accident. Thus he fell in the performance of his duties – on the 25th of Elul 1975 (1.9.1975). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He was followed by parents and two sisters. “For about three months, Yoni Z” l spent many of the tasks that were imposed on him, above and beyond expectations, “Yoni’s last commandant said in his letter to the bereaved family.