Kachlon, Yigal

Son of Rachel and Chaim. Born on April 20, 1966 in Ashkelon, Yigal studied at the Remez Elementary School in Ashkelon and began to stand out in his athletic and leadership skills, loved and excelled in Bible studies, participated in the National Bible Contest for Youth and won He went on to study at the Aryeh Tager High School in Ashkelon, in the humanitarian track, focusing on the basketball game and joining the ASA Ashkelon basketball team as a pivotal player. At the same time, he trained a group of children and youth in the municipal league. Yigal also worked as a youth counselor and served as a mentor for an orphan-IDF boy whose father had fallen in the Lebanon War in the first Tsur disaster, and was also drafted into the IDF in mid-August 1984 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. In the course of his regular service, Yigal successfully completed a parachuting course, a training course for commanders, a course for wireless operators and a unit counter course, and served as a platoon sergeant in the training base of the Paratroopers Brigade. “A good and energetic soldier, responsible and devoted, performs his duties over and above the difficult conditions.” Shortly after his discharge from duty, Yigal joined the regular army, married Anat and the couple settled in Homesh In the past few years, Ben-Tom and Bat Maya were born, and his last position in the IDF was against discipline in a corps of the Signal Corps. “Yigal served against discipline in the battalion, contributed greatly and instilled discipline in the battalion commanders and soldiers, and invested much of his time and energies in improving the battalion’s appearance and in instilling awareness of the issue among the unit’s soldiers and commanders.” On the 17th of Tishrei 5756 (15.9.1991), Yigal was killed while serving in the military cemetery in Ashkelon, where he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, Yigal left a wife, son and daughter, parents, three brothers – Yaakov, Yaniv Boaz and sister Merav.