Simchai, Yehuda (Netzach)

The eldest son of Shulamit and Aharon, he was born on 2/223131 in Yemen, and when he was three years old he immigrated to Israel with his parents who settled in Mahaneh Yehuda near Petah Tikva. He studied at the “Netzer Israel” school and in the middle of 1946, at the age of 15, moved to a working life in the framework of the framework. Yehuda was an active member of Hanoar Haoved, and was devoted to sports and was dedicated to the Gadna, and he aspired to pioneering a pioneering life with his comrades in the ” He joined the Yiftah Brigade and participated in 18 battles and operations – from the Galilee to the Negev – and all of them stood out with courage and no fear. And he returned with two machine guns on his back, was a machine gunner in his company, suffering from a force of suffering, contented with a small, silent mind, knew his weapon and loved and did not disappoint in missions And Take him. Among his last, Huliqat, during Operation “Yoav” breakthrough Negev on Sunday evening Sukkot Ts”t, Egyptians constantly attacked the outpost where Bethlehem of Judea. He and his comrades responded with precision fire until the enemy no longer dared to take his head and fired into the air. When Yehuda was wounded by a cannon shell and lying on a stretcher, he did not complain about his pain and silently carried his suffering. He was taken to the hospital in Tel Litvinsky and died of his wounds on the 17th of Tishrei, 5709 (October 20, 1948). He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Petah Tikva