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Manor, Yakir (Shmuel)

Manor, Yakir (Shmuel)


Son of Gedaliah and Shalva. Was born on August 4, 1957 in Tel Katzir, named after Yakir Greenbaum, a kibbutz member who joined the Nahal Brigade and fell several days before his birth. Yakir attended the Tel Hai elementary school in Haifa, continued to study in the junior high school of the municipal school of G. and graduated from the ” Sha’anan was in Haifa and joined the “Gal-Gil” nucleus, which was intended for a settlement in the Jordan Valley, where he was a sports enthusiast and excelled in the basketball game, and in 1974 he joined the Hapoel basketball team. In the summer of 1975, after graduating from high school, Yakir, together with the members of the core group that joined him, Who was active in agricultural work, was proud of his occupation and was pleased with his father, whose profession was close to the field of agricultural work Yakir was drafted into the IDF in January 1976. After completing his training course, The Katif Brigade moved to the Gaza Strip, where the group moved to the Jordan Valley and Kibbutz Galgal, and devoted much of its energies to working in the kibbutz, and was greatly admired by its commanders and members of the nucleus on February 19, 1977. ) Yakir fell in the line of duty. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. Survived by his parents and sister. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “I express my deep sorrow, on my behalf and on behalf of all the soldiers and commanders of the battalion, for the untimely death of your dear son Yakir. Yakir was a model soldier who fulfilled all the tasks entrusted to him with devotion and loyalty. “The family published a booklet in his memory.

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