Seville, Yosef

Yosef, son of Penina and Salomon, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and immigrated with his family to Israel in 1949. During his childhood, he spent his childhood in the capital city of Cairo, where he studied at the Alliance High School and at the Nazaria Collazen Mark High School and excelled in many sports – soccer, volleyball, tennis and swimming – and was engaged in sports at any time of leisure, and was drafted into the IDF in late January 1952 and assigned to the Ordnance Corps. In July 1954, when he left for civilian life, he married his girlfriend, Bella, whom he had known during his service, and the couple had three children, Pnina, Eitan and Anat. On Yom Kippur he served in the southern front, and on October 19, 1973, he was hit and killed while crossing the Suez Canal. He was taken to the military section of the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul and left behind a wife, son and two daughters, parents, brother and four sisters, and was raised to the rank of sergeant.