Kendil, Joseph

Son of Miriam (Ramah) and Moshe. He was born in 1923 in the city of Sherf in Yemen and immigrated to Eretz Israel through Eden in 1932. The family lived in the Shabazi neighborhood and Yosef, as a member of a religious family, studied in a Talmud Torah for Yemenites in the neighborhood. After leaving school, he went to work to help support the family. Joseph had a musical sense and marveled at the harmonica and the flute. Being a handsome man, he was a success for the girls. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Yosef responded to the call of the national institutions and enlisted in the British army, the cavalry corps. With his unit he served in Egypt and the Western Desert and reached Tobruk, Libya. On the 11th of Av, 5702 (February 21, 1941), Joseph fell in battles that were abandoned around the city and was buried at the British military cemetery in the city. He left parents, six brothers and two sisters. His memory is commemorated in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the “Book of the Year of the Journalists” and in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute, marking the location of his grave 1E12. Pioneer Corps.