Sherf, Yair-Shlomo

Ben Yona and Shaul. Born in Jerusalem on December 29, 1946, he grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood, where he became acquainted with basic concepts of Judaism and began to develop a special connection to the country, He continued his high school studies at the Hebrew University High School, but two years later he chose to pursue a vocational track at ORT Neviim in electronics, and during his high school years his achievements were good, especially in the fields of mathematics and physics. ‘The biblical tree as reflected in the eyes of the child’, presented by me Israeli Estate an international flower exhibition held in the Netherlands. Yair was a young individualist and developed discipline, who despite his love for social life did not like permanent frameworks and therefore gave up membership in the Scout Movement. Instead he preferred occupations that required imagination and daring. Was acceptable to his contemporaries and especially to his peers. In August 1964, he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces and was sent to a pilot’s course, where he served in various units and took a commanding officer course, but spent most of his service in the Intelligence Corps. He served in the IDF Spokesman’s Office during the Six-Day War and served in the IDF’s Armored Corps during the Yom Kippur War, and joined a television crew to cover the fighting in the central sector in Lebanon. For twenty years he worked for the IBA on Israeli television, first as a sound technician and later as deputy director of the voice department. At the same time, he served as Chairman of the Workers’ Committee and took great care of his employees and their welfare. His colleagues in the Israel Broadcasting Authority described him as honest and decent, and above all, as a member with whom he could find a solution and an understanding of every problem that arose. On the professional level he was a perfectionist, an excellent professional, stubborn and devoted to work, who does not hesitate to confront when it comes to sticking to professional principles. Yair married Batya, and the couple had four sons – Yehonatan, Yoash, Matan and Ben. On the personal level, he was a wonderful man, a devoted father and husband, a caregiver and a caregiver who always knew how to navigate himself for the needs of his family. Yair was killed during his reserve service on 28 December 1988, when he was in the IDF’s reserves and returned to his home every night. On his forty-second birthday, Yair was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He put a wife, four sons, a father and a sister – Michal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote about Yair’s diligence and his persistence and initiative, which was always accompanied by a smile of responsiveness. Articles about the incident in which he died appeared in the daily press.