Kliger, Yosef-Aryeh
Joseph (Yossi), son of Miriam and Pinchas, was born on October 21, 1949 in Hadera, two months after his parents immigrated to Israel from Europe. He studied at the Kaplan Elementary School in Beit Eliezer, at the Or Lataf Elementary School in Givat Olga, at the Tachkemoni High School in Hadera, and graduated from the Tchernichovsky High School in Netanya in the humanitarian field. Because of his parents’ living conditions in the Hadera transit camp, Yossi grew up in the home of his grandfather and grandmother. He was Simcha with them and had no choice but to return to their parents’ home. Because he lived in different places, he also had to change schools. Yosef was drafted into the IDF at the end of October 1967 and was assigned to the Engineering Corps, where he was assigned to the Armored Corps. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Sinai Battalion and promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and his commanders admired him as a quiet, serious, disciplined officer who did his job well. The healthy climate, etc. Even during the war he took care of the house and demanded that his subordinates write to their parents and reassure them, and when they did not know how, And during his regular service he was awarded the “Silver Slingshot.” In his discharge certificate he was described as a “dedicated and responsible officer with good organization and perception.” After completing his regular service and being assigned to reserve duty, He did not evade an argument and could persuade his interlocutors to speak quietly and with a good smile, and Yossi loved the desert and the expanses, and when he was discharged from the army and had to postpone his studies , Because he was late to register, did not regret it and went to work as a tractor operator in the desert. He wanted to study mechanical engineering, but a year later he was accepted to study materials engineering. He did not like compromises, so he turned down his studies and eventually chose to go to computer studies. In 1973 he was accepted as a student at the University of Be’er Sheva for mathematics and computer studies. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yossi arrived in his unit and took part in battles in the Sinai. On October 24, 1973, he participated in a battle to hunt down Egyptian commando soldiers in the region of the hills, north of the 101 km on the Suez-Cairo road, and was brought to rest in the cemetery in Netanya Left his parents and sister in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family: “Your son proved himself to be an excellent commander whose soldiers followed him with fire. Yossi was an excellent officer, quiet and brave. His soldiers owe him their lives. “His parents donated a Torah scroll to the synagogue of Hapoel Hamizrachi on Weizmann Boulevard in Netanya.
