Mori, Joseph

Son of Haim and Sarah. He was born on November 18, 1937 in Tel Aviv. Yosef completed his elementary studies at the “Talmud Torah” school for Yemenites and later studied at the “Shevach” vocational school and completed his studies there. He was a member of the “Ma’apilim” youth movement. He worked independently and owned a workshop for electric panels. He was drafted into the IDF in July 1956 and served in the Nahal Brigade at Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin. He was a member of the Sde Boker farm. Yosef was called up for reserve duty every now and then and on the eve of the Six-Day War called to reserve duty, but then he was drafted together with his private van, which became an ambulance – and Yosef served not only as a truck driver while fulfilling his duty but as an assistant doctor. He belonged to a combat unit and the truck moved with the fighters on the first line to deliver “first aid” to the victims. In the course of fighting for the capture of the radar hill overlooking the whole area of ​​Ma’aleh Hahamisha and the Jerusalem area, his unit mounted on a minefield and was hit by a heavy and concentrated shelling that fell from the shell on the spot. This was on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. He left a wife and two children, the youngest of whom was about six months old. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.