Shema (Shamai), Judah

Son of Sarah and Yosef, was born on April 8, 1961 in Kiryat Yam. Yehuda attended elementary and high school in Kiryat Yam, completed eleven years of schooling, some of them in a vocational school, and in electronics, and completed his final year at the “Michelle” secondary school in Haifa. In August 1979, he enlisted in the IDF and served in the Infantry Corps, where he was promoted to the rank of corporal and was promoted to the rank of Corporal, and he served as a rifleman On April 16, 1982, Equipment in an APC, where he drove. He drove to the snowshoe up Mount Hermon on a muddy and snowy road. As he rode with his car in a sharp curve, he swerved to the side of the road, turned over, and was killed. Yehuda was 21 years old when he fell. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa. Yehuda left behind his parents, three sisters and two brothers. The commander of his unit wrote about him in a letter of condolence to his family: “Yehuda was a source of security, inspiration and encouragement for those around him … His smile, kindness and desire to help others were an inseparable part of his personality.