Kumi, Yochanan

Yochanan, son of Joan and Michael, was born on September 22, 1939, in Cape Town, South Africa, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1946. He attended elementary school at the Rehavia Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem, Yochanan, who was known as Yochi and Yoch, spent three years in Canada as his father served there as ambassador to Israel, and was conscripted into the IDF in mid-August 1958 and assigned to the Israel Defense Forces The Gunners. After basic training, he was trained as a field gunner. He did his job efficiently and wisely and his commanders sent him to an officers’ course. After graduating from an officer’s course and a course for officers of the Hatam brigade, he was appointed as a battery officer in a mobile artillery regiment, and after his return from the United States he was assigned to reserve duty as an artillery officer in a field battalion. After completing his regular service in 1961, Yochanan traveled to the United States where his father served as Israel’s ambassador to the UN and began his academic studies. He studied at the University of Columbia and later at Brandeis University, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in economics in 1964. That same year, he married Susan Levine, his classmate at Brandeis, and began to study for a master’s degree in international relations at the University “Princeton”. At first he thought of entering the Israeli Foreign Service, but eventually decided to specialize in economics, and after completing his master’s degree, Princeton began his doctoral thesis, “International Migration of Professional Personnel: The Situation in the United States- Canada, “and specialized in labor economics and demography. Yohanan worked for a year at the United Nations Development Fund and later in 1966 worked as a research assistant at the Princeton Labor Relations Department, where he served as an instructor in economics at the university in 1968. After receiving his doctorate in 1969, Yohanan returned to Israel and was appointed economics lecturer in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering And was promoted to the rank of senior lecturer there in 1972. He also served as a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa, where he studied economics, Bargaining and promotion of employees, joint work with a colleague Is considered one of the only convincing attempts to examine formal theories of the bargaining process as opposed to the actual facts that arose in the negotiations of the unions and managements.was concerned not only with abstract research, but also with the problems of manpower in Israel, especially academic manpower, Supply and demand of engineers John was a member of the National Committee for the Determination of Tuition in Universities and of the Research Grants Committee of the Ministry of Labor and was a consultant to two studies conducted at the Israeli Institute for Shipping Research, 1971 was responsible for the degree studies To the bride. In 1973 he was appointed head of economics studies. He excelled in long-distance running. He was also a good swimmer, and in the spring of 1973 he participated with his friends from the Technion in the 20th popular winery of the Sea of ​​Galilee. Yohanan had a sense of humor. He was aware of what was happening around him and felt the need to express his opinion on public matters. Indeed, from time to time he wrote short notes to the press criticizing negative phenomena in our lives. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yochanan took his unit and took part in battles in the Golan Heights as a management officera fire. According to his commander, Yochanan behaved with exemplary coolness even during difficult times and after consecutive days of fighting. He took over the crew and battery work, made a great effort to take care of people and excelled in leadership skills. On 24.11.1973, Yohanan died while serving in the village of Ayouba in the Golan Heights. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left behind a wife and two daughters, parents and a sister. After his death he was promoted to captain.