Mor-Yosef, Meir

Meir, son of Joseph and Zohara, was born on December 13, 1948, in Buzad, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1962. Meir was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1967 and assigned to the Engineering Corps. After basic training, he completed a course for commanders and a course from the Engineering Corps. He served during the War of Attrition during the War of Attrition on the banks of the Suez Canal and participated in raids by IDF units beyond the borders of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon After being discharged from regular service he was assigned to reserve units, He was always willing to extend his hand to anyone who needed help, and he did everything he did with a smile, calmly, without When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Meir was drafted and sent to the front in Sinai In the southern sector he did all the war until, on the day of his return with his comrades from the rescue of two tanks that had been trapped in a minefield near the Suez Canal, his vehicle was on a mine and he was killed on the spot. He was brought to eternal rest in the Hadera cemetery. He left behind a wife and daughter, parents, four brothers and four sisters.