Shinar, Yoash

Yoash (Gueva, Tosik), son of Sarah and Nachman, was born on 4 August 1940 in Hadera and grew up in Moshav Beit Aharon, where he studied at the Kfar Vitkin Elementary School, He studied at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in entomology, and was a major student in the field of agriculture since he was a young student. Several of his writings were read to the students in his class and in other classes of the school, and Yoash was independent in his opinions and refused to be enslaved to the Mossad He was an open man and a good man, well connected with people and had many friends who helped him and always helped him. He was gifted with a sense of humor, and loved a good joke at the time, and he loved a Yaffa flower, a real work of art, and a variety of music. He would always be interested. All his life he was a loyal son of his parents. After he married, he was devoted to his wife Aliza and a loving father who cared for his daughter Maya. Yoash was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1958 and volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade, where he was trained as a parachutist and a combat soldier, and was considered a good soldier who was responsible and dedicated to his position. He was among the paratroopers who fought on Ammunition Hill and the force that burst into the Old City, and was sent to bring four tanks that were waiting to help the infantry. He was and remains one of the oldest paratroopers and did not abandon the corps even after a war During the War of Attrition, he fought on the banks of the Suez Canal and the Jordan Valley, and when he was released from regular army service, he worked in the farm of his parents, He worked at the citrus council and worked on pest control in citrus orchards in the central and southern regions, devoted his leisure time to entertainment, organized a number of shows in the kibbutzim, reorganized the puppet theater, re-established the jazz orchestra Of Mel Keller and was the father of the idea of ​​”midnight films,” which many sought to enact Character. When the Yom Kippur War broke out Yoash was drafted and sent with his unit to the front in Sinai. After eighteen difficult days of fighting, he left on the 24th of Tishrei 5734 (24.10.1973), with the strength of the battalion commander to extract an armored force captured by enemy fire. In this battle he was hit by an antitank fire and was killed at the site, first considered a missing person, then a burial place was declared, and his body was discovered and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kfar Vitkin. “In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote:” We loved him, Yoash. He was a man who could always be trusted. In the most difficult situations, when I assigned him a task, I knew that it would be done well, for he knew how to distinguish between the essential and the care. He was committed to the task, and had the attribute ‘with all their might’, an important component of every warrior. And another trait was in despair, which characterized aThe local council of Emek Hefer published a pamphlet in memory of its sons who fell in the war, and the Faculty of Agriculture published a booklet in memory of the students of the faculty who fell in the Yom Kippur War, .