Shami, Yehuda

Son of Salim and Salima. He was born on September 16, 1946 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In 1951 the family immigrated to Israel. He studied at the elementary school in Givat Brenner for two years, but completed his elementary school at Akron. Then he went to work. In February 1966 he was drafted into the IDF even though his sick mother tried to convince him to ask him to be discharged from the army in order to be able to help him in the house, but Yehuda refused to do so in his duty to serve in the army. During his service, he was attacked by an ulcus and could have been released because of this, but he refused to do so and even swore his younger brother, because he was very fond of his comrades and loved them. In due course, he would volunteer for this elite unit, and his loyalty to the army had no limits, and many of the youth in his neighborhood served as a model because they also volunteered When the Six-Day War broke out, he was attached to the brigade headquarters and served as the driver of the adjutant, but this was not pleasant for him, because he was not one of the fighters. , Which was exposed to Jordanian artillery snipers from the wall of the Old City, and when all the prisoners of war were assembled at the Rockefeller Museum and had to be interrogated, Judah soon volunteered for the position of interrogator because he saw it as a war role, But at that very same time the fire of the bombs had increased, and in one of their fragments Judah was killed, for he had not left his mission for a moment; It was on the third day of the battles, it was 28 Iyar 5727 He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. A booklet published by the Or Yehuda Regional Council commemorated his name. In the book “Marinas Gabro” of the Paratroopers Headquarters was devoted a page to his history and description of his last battle.