Skel, Yoav

Son of Edna and Emanuel. Was born on the 16th of Tishrei, Rosh Hashanah 5727 (September 16, 1966) in Jerusalem, the eldest son of his parents On the third anniversary of his family’s death he moved to Rehovot, where he grew up in the Havatzelet neighborhood of Rehovot, After completing his studies at the De-Shalit High School, he joined the Hanoar Haoved vehalomed youth movement in his fourth grade, where he went on trips and was well acquainted with the country, and on his tenth birthday, To the United States in the course of an IDF course to which the father, then a colonel in the IDF, was sent, and during their stay there, Yoav learned to speak fluent English with a correct accent and became interested in everything He returned to Israel and continued his activities in the “Working and Studying Youth” and in the public welfare service, when he was in 10th grade, he began to train in the movement, but he was a responsible figure, and he worked with great dedication and political and civic involvement. He and his friends saw him as the mainstay of the movement’s branch, and his friends from the nest were preparing to go to the nucleus in Hamadia. Yoav volunteered to serve in the Golani infantry unit in November 1984. In the framework of this unit he was able to express his abilities, ability Yoav fell in battle on Sunday, September 5, 1986, during a raid by the Golani reconnaissance unit against a terrorist network near the village of Zabkin in southern Lebanon. He was killed in the exchange of fire with them and brought to rest in the cemetery in Rehovot. Survived by his parents, sister Vered and brother Avner. His comrades in the Benno reconnaissance unit erected a monument in the Carmel and removed a booklet commemorating his memory. On the slopes of the Carmel, where Yoav and his friends grew up on the Trans-Carmel road, the family set up a lookout for Yoav. They also called for the Trans-Carmel navigation after him. The Jewish Students Organization in Rome planted a tree in his memory in the forests of the Jewish National Fund.