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Shiloni, Yosef (Yossi)

Shiloni, Yosef (Yossi)


Son of David and Tzila. He was born on May 29, 1942 in Ein Harod. The days were then the days of World War II, days of anxiety for the fate of the Jewish community in Palestine. In those early days of Joseph’s life, the “Black Shabbat” came as a symbol of the cruelty of meeting the Yishuv with the world that hated it. After the struggle in the yard of the agriculture, the fathers’ exile to distant Rafah and Joseph was four years old when he met his father who was returning from detention. It may have been the first time that Yosef had grasped the meaning of war. But he was still in kindergarten, and when the War of Independence broke out, the joy of her victories was mixed with the pain of bereavement, and it left its mark on all the children. Yosef’s reaction was to build a toy in a mortar to protect Ein Harod, which was the State of Israel for him. Yosef attended elementary and high school – the joint school in Ein Harod and completed his studies there. But until now he has enlisted in the Nahal Brigade and became a nuclear instructor in one of the western Negev settlements in August 1960. After his discharge from the army, he returned home and worked in a citrus grove and office. He was sent to the “Arnim”, the international teachers’ seminary, but only a few months later he devoted himself to his studies, and two days after Independence Day, 5727-1967, he was called up for reserve duty and stationed himself in his unit – Armored Patrol, and on the third day of the battles, on the 28th of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), advanced along the central axis of the Sinai Jebel Livni to the compound where he died made riding ambushed an Egyptian and he fell from a machine gun. He was buried in the emergency military cemetery in Bari and later transferred to the eternal rest of the cemetery at Kibbutz Ein Harod Ihud. In the 1930s, the kibbutz took out his diary in his memory. With the information of the Gilboa Regional Council in memory of the fallen people, his memory was raised. A company on behalf of the agriculture also came out in his memory. In the book, “On Their Way,” published by the Union of Kibbutzim and Kibbutzim in memory of its fallen comrades, remarks were made about him and his government.

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