Kels, Yigal

Son of Moshe and Shoshana. He was born on November 7, 1947, in Tel Aviv, the month the United Nations declared the establishment of the state. His father was one of the veterans of the Hagana and volunteers to the British Army during World War II, and his mother was a member of the Haganah and Magen David Adom. He studied at the Henrietta Szold Elementary School in Tel Aviv. In those years he was active in youth movements, the United Movement, and Dizengoff Scouts in Tel Aviv. He was a quiet, sensitive and friendly boy, modest in his ways and humble, and because of these he became very fond of his friends and apprentices. He was active and full of energy and creativity. On vacation days in the summer he would go to work in kibbutzim; He liked to play sports, shooting and chess, and was also awarded a medal for crossing the Sea of ​​Galilee. He continued to study at the New High School in Tel Aviv and completed his high school studies at the military school near the Reali School in Haifa. A boy full of joy, who loved the sea and the sun, loved to read books and listen to music. Yigal was drafted into the IDF in August of 1966 and assigned to the Artillery Corps, where he took a parachuting course and was a freshman’s guide for a while when he came home for a short vacation and always had friends waiting for him and loved him for his kindness, Yigal was a cheerful and cheerful young man with a wonderful sense of humor, who participated in the battles for the liberation of Jerusalem and continued with his unit to Jericho after the conquest of the West Bank, after which he crossed the Jordan Valley from south to north and reached the Golan Heights. He was placed in an operational unit, and he was assigned a difficult and dangerous position, and Yigal filled him with dedication, loyalty Yigal was an exemplary son of his parents and his family and was devoted to them with Lev and soul, writing letters to them almost daily and talking to them on the phone so that they would not be worried: he participated in the Karameh operation and served as an observation officer. On Sunday, March 13, 1969, he went on an observation flight over Egypt, while returning from the operation, his plane was shot down north of Ras Sudar. Yigal was brought to rest, Forever in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. After they fell, he was promoted to captain. At Sha’arim, the organ of the workers’ union in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, words were written in his memory and his biography was reviewed; A list in his memory “Yigal of the Dormitories” and published in Davar Ha-Po’elot; His parents published a book in his memory bearing his name.