Nagar, Yechiel

Son of Ovadia and Shemesh. He was born on Thursday, November 4, 1951. He studied at the “Yesodei HaTorah” elementary school in Rosh Ha’ayin, and after graduating he moved to a vocational yeshiva and studied mechanical frameworks at the ORT vocational school. In Kfar Chabad. Then the Six-Day War broke out and Yehiel volunteered on his initiative to assist the soldiers. After the Six-Day War he continued his work. He was conscripted into the IDF in February 1969. On 28 August 1969, he died and was put to rest at the Rosh Ha’ayin cemetery, where he expressed his condolences to the bereaved parents and said that Yehiel “served In our unit, and was very popular with his commanders and friends. Who has a good character and a desire to serve his homeland, as he put it in one of my conversations with him: ‘I came to the IDF in order to serve my homeland.’