Peretz, Yosef
Ben Simcha and Shlomo, was born on the 3rd of Adar 5738 (August 3, 1978) in Ofakim. The seventh son among the nine children of the family, brother to David, Tamar, Hanna, Yael, Iris, Galit, Meir and Itzik. Yosef grew up in Ofakim, where he studied at the Morasha and Sinai schools, continued at the Sanhedria Yeshiva in Jerusalem and returned to Ofakim to the “Takuma” junior high school. As a technical expert, he moved, after the tenth grade, to work in frameworks, a field he loved and excelled in. Yossi loved sports and played soccer, he was familiar and loved by all, a very sociable man, with many friends. He had a strong and warm relationship with his brothers and sisters, and Yossi excelled in his devotion to everyone. Prior to his induction, Yossi debated between his love of the army and his desire to be close to his family and to help her, and sought a way to combine the two. Yossi successfully completed a pre-military driving course and at the end of April 1996, when he was drafted into the IDF, he was assigned as a transport driver in the school for infantry and infantry commanding officers. Yossi died during his service in a car accident near the country club in Be’er Sheva, where his friend Shimon Biton was killed, and Yossi was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Ofakim, leaving behind his parents. , Five sisters and three brothers.
