Stadler, Yosef (Yosl)

Son of Roza and Shimon, was born on June 10, 1922 in Vienna, the capital of Austria. When the Nazis took control of Austria, he stopped his high school studies and immigrated to Israel as part of the Youth Aliyah. After education and training in Tel Adashim, he settled with his friends in the Dovrat group at the foot of the Tabor, and was responsible for the development of the settlement, from the settlement onwards. In 1944 he volunteered for the Palmach and joined the Jewish Brigade together with the German Division and participated in the war in Europe, where he took a short visit to his parents in New York and returned to Israel to join his group. When the War of Independence broke out, a company commander was appointed to one of the battalions in the Golani Brigade and participated in all the battles in the Gilboa region, and in the interval between the battles he trained and educated conscripts from the city. At the end of the truce, the Iraqis attacked the city It’s a very intense, and given the priority enemy forces were forced to retreat. On Tammuz Independence (07/12/1948), amongst cover the retreat, held with his strong fire, in recognition of its compliance responsibilities to save the whole sector. Was wounded in the face and added to the command and the second bullet a wound in the outpost of Mazar, near the village of Aravona, on the Gilboa. He was laid to rest at the cemetery in Debre. After his fall, he was promoted to captain. His memory was included in the booklet “In Memory of the Four” published by the Dovrat group in Tammuz 5709