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Shmueli, Yinon (“Ganji” “Yanuni”)

Shmueli, Yinon (“Ganji” “Yanuni”)


Son of David and Miriam. He was born in the midst of the War of Independence, on the 11th of Adar I 5708 (21.2.1948) in Tel Aviv. After completing his studies at the Alkalai Elementary School in Kfar Shalem, he studied at the Kfar Batya High School, was active in sports and loved to collect coins and stamps, was a humorist and cheerful, and was amused by his friends in song and dance. And in the army he attended a vocational school in Or Yehuda. He was also in compulsory service as an outstanding soldier, disciplined, devoted and sympathetic to his commanders and comrades-in-arms. The Six-Day War broke out, in which he fought as deputy commander of a cannon crew. In the course of his duties, the battery was shelled and the soldiers entered the excavations – but Yinon refused to enter them, and continued to do his job and prepare ammunition until he was hit by a direct hit; This was in the village of Hanasi on Sunday, June 9, 1967. It was the fifth day of the war-fighting that was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and was later transferred to the eternal military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, “And in the description of the deed it is written that despite what a mnemonic received an order from his commander to take cover, he did not fulfill it,” because he knew that in his action the work of the team depended on him and continued to provide assistance to the attacking unit. ” In “The Book of Heroism,” published by the Association of Journalists in Tel Aviv and the survivors of Bergen-Belsen, a page was devoted to the description of his last sacrifice and that his friends had established Gilad in the artillery camp and Hugh engraved poem written in his memory.

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