Samucha, Yigal

Son of Yosef and Ahuva. He was born on July 26, 1949 in Tel Aviv. He studied at the Hamanhil Elementary School in Ramat Gan and at the Ort Technicom High School in Givatayim, in the drafting department, and completed it as a painter. By nature, Yigal was independent and disliked. Things he had to do he loved to do himself despite the difficulties. This was the way he had been since he was a student in elementary school. For example, he refused to receive assistance in funding the annual trip and during his free time would work and save money for the trip. He was perfectly honest and distinguished by a sense of exemplary justice. He would not bear a lie, or half truth. If he made a mistake he would admit it and expect others to do the same. His confidence in man was unlimited. Yigal’s attitude toward the home and family was warm and at home there was an atmosphere of Likud and brotherhood, whose external expression was revealed when the entire family stood and his father sanctified the wine. From his love for the house, Yigal took care of repairs in it and did various things for the enjoyment and use of the household. Yigal was an avid enthusiast of tours and at every opportunity he would go for a walk in Israel. Yigal was drafted into the IDF in July 1967, when he completed his high school studies and was assigned to the Armored Corps, and after completing basic training he completed training for a tank commander. He tried to carry out every task as best he could, finding the middle ground between carrying out the dry order and preserving human dignity, and he did not usually stand up and give orders to his subordinates, but first he organized the work and then he joined the soldiers, Ammunition, or in obtaining things that make life easier He was able to accompany his orders with a joke, or with his kind smile, and in time he was appointed commander of a platoon in the battalion who was about to be taken to the line, and was frantic in preparing the platoon and his staff for the tasks that would be imposed on them. “He was forced to move to the” hot “sector, and was transferred to the hottest outpost, under the command of the dock, and under his command the outpost was relatively quiet.Yegal had his own criteria for the officer-commander. And pain to his soldiers. When he saw the behavior of a Signal Officer of Fear he expressed his obvious dislike. “How could an officer not be able to control himself during the shelling?” Ask. On the 29th of Adar 2, 5730 (June 29, 1970), Yigal fell in an enemy raid near the Suez Canal and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. A few months later his parents received a commendation for courage, initiative and resourcefulness under enemy fire; “In March 1970, Lieutenant Yigal Shamucha served as commander of the tank division at Port Tawfik Pier, and when he arrived at the site, the Egyptians used to fire heavy anti-tank fire and unceasing artillery fire at our positions, with the intention of trying to crack them. Until his fall, Lieutenant Yigal fought battles against the Egyptians, during which time the tanks under his command destroyed 12 anti-tank positions and destroyed three Egyptian front observation posts, all under intense anti-tank fire and artillery fire. In the fighting at the wharf, Lt. Yigal was reassuring the soldiers serving there Gal was killed by an enemy shell on March 29, 1970. ” In June 1973, his parents were awarded the “Medal of Honor”An act that earned Yigal the medal.