Yehoshua, the son of Ahuva and Chaim, was born on August 26, 1952 in Moshav Magshimim, and joined his two sisters and his two brothers, Shuki was a Yaffa baby with large green eyes and a gorgeous smile. He loved the way of life in him, his atmosphere and his creative work, he loved flowers and animals, and he had a special approach to nature and a sharp eye in discovering various natural phenomena, many of his photographs attesting to his participation in the school plays “And in the tribe, etc. Shuki began studying at the Magshimim Elementary School and finished, like all his children, at the Karol School in Petah Tikva. Shuki participated in all the social activities of his peers, acquired the hearts of his friends and stood out as a leader. He had many experiences at the time, such as “watermelon” and “persimmon,” which he loved most, the hair shaver, the construction of a first and second model, which he built as an aviation club member at Yahud Community Center. He helped his mother in the garden she nurtured and joined his sisters and older brothers in setting up the farm, building the chicken coop, and guarding the children, a new building was built in the family, where he found time to help. He attended high school in Yehud, and his high school diploma had high grades in the subjects He was always an excellent and diligent student, and during this period Shuki took his life to study agronomy and developed dreams to help develop the agricultural agriculture in Israel, to investigate, to invent … He also planned with his good friends to settle in a development area and start a new agriculture. In the course of his four years in high school, a special, warm and friendly relationship developed between him and the school principal and teachers, and Shuki participated in all the activities of the school: Tzalach the Kinneret, travel to Sharm-a-Sheikh immediately After the Six Day War, he was an active member of “Youth for Youth” and in this framework traveled to Europe, and visited Germany and Denmark . Shuki was also the chairman of the student council at the school. “I do not want to be like everyone else,” he said; Indeed, Shuki was not like everyone else. Even though he was the youngest of his brothers and sisters, he was able to give the most prudent advice to his family, who used to turn to him for help in solving problems. He was an example of his friends and family in the status he acquired, his wisdom and his adult world view. Yehoshua was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of November 1970. He later changed his mind and volunteered for the Armored Corps, saying: “Armored Corps is the future of the country.” He completed courses in the Armored Corps with high grades and in November 1971, “Shuki’s service in the IDF was flawless and his commanders finished his praises. He was an example of his subordinates in his professional capacity and was an excellent tank commander. He spent three years in Sinai, and said, “I eat, drink and breathe sand.” Vacations were seldom received and the expectation of his coming home was great, each time anew. As an elected member of his company, he arrived at the end of his service as a company sergeant and served him in an efficient, responsible and humane manner. The Defense Ministry studied at the Bar-Ilan University in the Mathematics-Physics Preparatory School, and worked on its teachers and used to sit for hours in the university library and study.Who was on holiday, because he did not want to upset them for not coming home. He knew how to study thoroughly and deeply, and found no rest until he learned it deeply. He studied stubbornly and indulgently and therefore learned alone. But at the same time much to help his friends. He did not let the lecturers clarify the need for clarification, and so, with his characteristic will, he completed his preparatory studies successfully. “I knew most of all …,” Dr. Kaveh wrote, in which Shuki had one of sixty young men in the same six-week preparatory program. “Towards the end of the course, I managed to squeeze a smile out of its seriousness when I announced it “When the Yom Kippur War broke out, in the middle of the fast, when the siren sounded, Shuki was already in the armored house and immediately rushed to his unit in Sinai. During the battle of containment on October 12, 1973, in an assault on the Pillar Hill on the Etafa axis (Mitla), four tanks participated, one of them commanded by Joshua. Shuki advanced on the route himself, while his friends were in the wings. Here Shuki’s tank was hit at close range by a barrage of RPGs, and it went up in flames. There Shuki was killed. Immediately after Shuki’s tank was hit, the commander ordered the force to “skip backward.” In one of his many letters to his girlfriend, he wrote: “Do not ask what kind of war is going on between us, between the fans of the Patton tank and the supporters of the Santorion. Everyone praises his tank and wishes each other to dry up in Sinai or freeze in the Golan Heights. One religious young man said that the first thing he does is to set a mezuzah in a tank … “Shuki was brought to burial on Mount Herzl and left behind his parents, two sisters and two brothers, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. “Your son, the late Levi Yehoshua, served in his unit as a tank commander and took part in the fierce and cruel battle he had in his unit in the southern sector, where the Egyptian army was stopped, and his son was a partner in this victory. And his devotion to his mission, which he had not abandoned until his last moments. Know, dear parents, that your pain is our pain, and always the memory of Yehoshua will remain engraved in our hearts. We, who knew him, will try to accompany you in the future as much as we can, and may our deeds in the future be worthy of his memory: “The mother of his childhood friend wrote:” Clear eyes and look / good-sighted and Yaffa / Among the boys / pure of all pure / Tom and quiet your image / wing – the Divine Presence will save you … / “
