Shema, Joseph

Yosef, son of Naomi and Avraham, was born on March 14, 1954, in Kiryat Yam, where he studied at the elementary school in his hometown, and continued to study at a yeshiva high school. He was a taller than all the students, and his classmates remembered him as a cheerful, cheerful fellow with a smile and laughter, and he liked to joke and was famous for his sense of humor.In his class Joseph was always the center of social life, Inventing entertainment and encouraging his friends to take part in social activities. On holidays and holidays, Yosef would arrange parties for the talented people Joseph was loved and accepted by his classmates and neighborhood friends, and he was blessed with the ability to listen patiently and with sincere interest to every member who came to him for a conversation – many asked for his closeness and were not afraid to tell him their deepest secrets. And was careful to direct his friend to take a course that seemed to him the best, and he was also an excellent athlete, and he often participated in school competitions, sports, and often managed to reach first places. Friends and teachers knew that Yosef could be assigned unusual tasks, and that he could be trusted with a quiet Lev. During the Gadna expeditions, Yosef served as a runner, who quickly and reliably passed on the orders of the commander of the expedition, and he volunteered to carry water tanks and other equipment, in addition to his personal equipment. He took his backpack on his shoulders and continued to walk beside him and encourage him, and in Joseph’s eyes, the members and life outside the school were more important than the studies themselves, and he had learned to do his duty to his teachers and to the demands of the school, but nothing more. To their lives, to their hearts, to their joy, and to their pain, his friends remember how Simcha he was when he was in school He went on to emphasize how eagerly he looked forward to the end of the school year, so that finally he went out to the real life, outside the greenhouse of the house and school, impatiently waiting for his induction into the IDF and full of plans for his military service. Yosef was drafted into the IDF in August 1972 and assigned to the Armored Corps, where he completed basic training in the Armored Corps and completed his training as a tank gunner, and at the end of the course he was placed in one of the field units. The highest percentage of casualties, and was highly appreciated by his comrades-in-arms.In the Yom Kippur War, Yosef was able to participate only in the first day battles against the Egyptians in the southern sector of the Suez Canal, on the 7th of Tishrei 5740 (7.10.1973) He was immediately hit and killed, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa Air by his parents, two brothers and three sisters. After falling promoted to corporal.