Monahite, Yehuda (York)

Yehuda, son of David and Esther, was born on the 28th of Iyar 5708 (June 6, 1948) in the city of Dzierzoniow, Poland. With his twin brother, Michael, he attended elementary school in his hometown, and in 1956 his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ashkelon. Yehuda was drafted into the IDF in early February 1967 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade after completing basic training and a paratroop training course in the course of the War of Attrition in the Jordan Valley and participating in the course of the Six Day War. After the Six-Day War, his mother asked him, “Were not you afraid?” And he replied: “Those who are afraid have died ten times a day.” In October 1968, Yehuda took an officer’s course, R. After a while he paid a small combat course. His commanders regarded him as an excellent officer, who did everything he had to do in the best possible way. At the end of March 1970, Yehuda was discharged from his regular service in the IDF and immediately moved to Haifa, where he began studying at the Technion in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, where he met his girlfriend Rebecca in November 1971 and since then refused to receive material help from his parents. His wife, and in order to finance his studies, worked in various jobs: a taxi driver, a teacher, and later an assistant at the Technion, where he was transferred to an engineering unit and was appointed as a barge commander. In his opinion, and in classes, he used to comment or to make reservations on behalf of all his classmates He was always willing to help, and he was always willing to help, with the great understanding and common language he found with children, with his love for his wife Rivka, with the flowers he always brought home and with the help of the housework he accepted willingly and with good spirit. Was sent back to the house to wait for the call, and waited impatiently for his unit, which had been organized and sent to the southern front, where he worked tirelessly to prepare for its success, and feared that he would not be able to contribute to the war. . There were barges at the meeting place, and on Saturday afternoon they set out for Sinai, on the banks of the canal. Next to Tessa, the unit was under fire, the soldiers dug in and Judah ran under the shower and pushed his men into the trenches so that they would not be hit. On the 17th of Tishrei 5734 (17.10.1973), when the units moved quickly towards the Canal accompanied by heavy shelling, Yehuda’s spokeswoman arrived without harming the shores of the Canal.Two of the barges were already in the water, and Yehuda’s spokeswoman was hurt in the heavy fire from all directions. He was able to push one of the soldiers out of the barge when he was hit by shells and an anti-tank missile and killed him, and he was brought to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife and son who was born three days after his death.