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Keller, Yanko

Keller, Yanko

Yanko, son of Rivka and Hershko, was born on April 24, 1953, in Romania. In 1962 he immigrated to Israel with his family, who settled in Petah Tikva. He studied in an elementary school in Romania and in the elementary school in Neve Oz in Petah Tikva. Afterward he continued to study for two years in a vocational school. Yanco was drafted into the IDF in early May 1971. After basic training and after completing his tank training course, he was assigned as a lieutenant in the Armored Corps, and later took part in a tank commanders course and was assigned as a tank commander in another battalion. On January 10, 1973, the first day of the war, Yanko was hit and killed, but his place of burial is unknown. A monument to his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, in the burial plot for fallen IDF soldiers who fell on the Egyptian front during the Yom Kippur War and whose burial place is not known or that were partially buried or identified, and a monument was erected in his memory in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery. He left behind parents, and sister, and was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant.

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