Nissenbaum, Ben-Zion-Yosef (“Bentzi” and “Yossi”)

Son of Shmuel and Nechama, who after years of fighting as partisans in the forests and swamps of Poland and in battles against the Germans, their son was born on December 22, 1946, in a refugee camp in Bern near Munich. In 1949, when Yossi was two years old, the family immigrated to Israel and after a brief stay in a new immigrant home, they established their home in the Brandeis apartment in Hadera. Where he completed his elementary studies with honors and continued his studies in a high school in a realistic direction. Nevertheless, he continued to literature, mainly to writing poems. He loved sports, was interested in aviation and was a member of the aviation club. Afterward, he continued with Gadna Air, where he excelled and was chosen to represent Israel in the United States in the summer of 1964. Before joining the IDF, Yossi was offered to go to the academic reserve; He even passed the officers’ examinations and succeeded in them, but at the last moment he gave up and decided to enlist in the army and after completing his service he will continue his studies. In the IDF, he did not want to do compulsory duty, but asked for a challenge, and in August 1965 he volunteered for an armored reconnaissance unit and was proud of his service. Yossi was modest and withdrawn by nature, did not say much about his experiences in the army. Participated in the battles of Kinneret and Samua. In the middle of his service, he asked for early release in order to enroll in the Technion, because he was eager to fulfill his program and study chemistry and physics, but fate wanted otherwise. While in compulsory service, the Six-Day War broke out. During the period of alert, he asked in his letters to know what was going on in the house and took great care of his family. Yossi was a member of a reconnaissance team on a jeep, and in the battle that took place in Rafah he was wounded by an enemy bullet and during the course of his evacuation he was hit and fell, and it was on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. He was buried in the cemetery And a long time later he was put to rest in the cemetery in Hadera, where the family published a pamphlet bearing his name, and the book “The Armored Patrol”, published by comrades-in-arms (Kibbutz Kfar Menahem) The people “in Hadera in memory of his graduates who fell in the Six Day War and in a booklet in memory of the graduates of the Hadera high school who fell in the battle was immortalized.