Shkolnik, Joseph-David

Son of Efrayim and Chaya. Born on May 5, 1935 in Haifa, he studied at the Yavneh Elementary School and completed his studies at the Samet High School in Haifa and in the yeshiva in Petah Tikva. Joseph-David was an intelligent young man with outstanding skills and qualities: “A quick perception, an original thought and a sharp intellect, his teachers praised him and praised his high level of studies, and he was known as a true colleague, always willing to help without arrogance or contempt. After completing his military service, he began to teach electricity at the Kfar Pines Yeshiva, and at the same time completed his studies on the matriculation exams and passed them successfully. He also studied at the School of Electrical Engineers at the Technion in Haifa and at the end of that period Joseph-David left Israel on a study mission from the Ministry of Labor and planned to continue his studies at the Technion in Haifa for an electrical engineering degree, and he gave up many places of work because of the necessity to work on them on Shabbat. And worked diligently on his studies from dawn until the wee hours of the night, and he was devoted to his wife and a caring and loving father for his young daughters, who was drafted into the IDF in August 1955 and volunteered for the Nahal Brigade. He served as a tractor driver in the Bnei Darom stream during the Six Day War, and during the Yom Kippur War, as a reserve soldier in the infantry, as a machine gunner, and was always called to reserve duty. (May 10, 1974) Yosef-David fell in the Golan Heights while serving in the military cemetery in Haifa, and left behind a wife and two daughters, parents, brother and sister in a condolence letter to the bereaved family. Joseph-David is responsible for his role and fulfilled what is required of him with devotion and diligence, serves as an example of everything, in his modesty and his friendly attitude toward people Of everyone. He never complained or grumbled, but bore the burden with dignity and carried his friends with him. “His family donated a Torah scroll to the synagogue for young people in Kiryat Shmuel.