Shiloni, Yigal

Yigal, son of Hinda and Avraham, was born in Haifa on July 21, 1937, and finished elementary and high school at Kibbutz Ginegar, where he was a member of Hapoel and the youth movement of the Union of the Kibbutzim and Kibbutzim. He spent most of his life in the city of Haifa, but when he was nine, the family moved to Kibbutz Ginegar, where he grew up and was educated. He loved nature, the work of the land, the expanses of the region and its landscapes, and he excelled in agriculture and chemistry He spent his free time in the sheep pen or in the grazing fields, and when he was a young man, Yigal worked in writing and spent hundreds of stories and poems writing in his notebooks, writing his profession and eventually becoming a journalist. Davar LeYeladim ‘program, on Army Radio and in Israeli broadcasts. Yigal was a sociable, loving and cheerful man, a loyal son of parents and a devoted friend and friend. At the center of every evening, there were always the elephants and songs he composed for the occasion. He was an adventurer by nature, undeterred by danger, fearless, and loved to take risks. As a child he used to collect snakes and during the War of Independence he risked dismantling and detonating explosives. Yigal was drafted into the IDF in late 1956 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, and was soon known as an excellent scout who knew every corner of the country, and had a rare sense of direction and was considered a commander and an exemplary instructor in training, exercises, and combat operations. After he was released from regular army service, Yigal returned to the kibbutz and organized cultural activities and was sent for a year of training in the HaNoar HaOved youth movement in Haifa and spent a certain period in Kibbutz Haon, where he realized what every young man must fulfill – to work and live for a while in a young farm. Ginegar, and since then he has lived with his family in various places in Israel and has been working He served as the secretary of the Israel Basketball Association and was very successful in his work, but when he broke out in the Yom Kippur War he was not drafted because of his partial disability, but he was not restless, Davar managed to reach the southern front and join his paratroopers unit, volunteering to serve in the unit as a scout and as a combat unit of mortars and bread with his friends, veterans of the unit. On October 16, 1973, Yigal participated in the bloody battle of the “Tartur-Lexicon” junction, which was intended to secure the bridgehead area on the Suez Canal, and Yigal’s unit had to clear the road and break through the junction. Opened on the unit and many of the half-tracks were hit. In this battle Yigal was injured and killed. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Ginegar, leaving behind a wife, son and daughter, parents and two sisters. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a booklet published by Kibbutz Ginegar in memory of three kibbutz members who fell in the war, a chapter dedicated to Yigal was devoted to several poems, lists and articles written by him.