Tehar, Yosef (Yossi)

Son of Bracha and Shimon, was born on 26 March 1953 in Tunisia, the capital of Tunisia, and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1956. The Tahar family lived for a while in the transit camp of Ashkelon, then settled in Moshav Azrikam. Where he moved to the comprehensive regional school in Be’er Tuvia and studied tigers, and continued to study drawing a building at the Technikum School in Tel Aviv, where Yossi was very attached to his family and contributed his part to the farm. His Lev, and he excelled in the games that were held in the regional school, and Yossi was saved from work as a needle in one of the military industrial plants Yossi was drafted into the IDF in early May 1971 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. In this brigade, he began his military career as a corporal in compulsory service, where he completed his career as a major and as a career officer in the career army. To his battalion as a platoon commander. Before long he was appointed commander of a company in the battalion. During this period he met his wife Efrat, who served in the unit. The two married and moved to Haifa. After a year and a half their son Barak was born. Yossi was sent to the Command and Staff School, and when he completed his career, he was appointed as a brigade commander in the brigade, and during his long service Yossi took part in the Yom Kippur War, participated in the Litani operation and was among the soldiers chosen for action In one of his first operations, Lieutenant Colonel Amos says: “We embarked on a certain operation to break through the road to Fatahland. This was Yossi’s first encounter, and he acted exceptionally well and coolly, even though he was then a young soldier. He crawled closer to the terrorist who was hiding behind a rock, rose and killed him from a distance of twenty meters. Immediately afterwards, the company medic was wounded and had to be turned back. Yossi crawled to him quite a long crawl, and together with a few other guys helped in the treatment of the medic and his rescue back. This was Yossi’s first time under fire, and he behaved like a model. “All the qualities that we saw in the future were already in his first encounter.” Yossi was the commander of a platoon at the officers’ school, and the commander of the school at that time, Major General Matan Vilnai, noted that “we knew that his unit was getting a mission. In training, in operations, in any situation, because the commander is Yossi … he loved his soldiers. “On July 20, 1981, during an operation to clean the nests of terrorists, Major Yosef fell in battle in Lebanon And was brought to rest at the military cemetery in the village of Warburg, where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, who left behind a wife and son, parents, four brothers and two sisters. “Yossi began his career in the brigade as a soldier – his successes and excellence led him to fill a chain of command positions in the brigade, and as a commander fell in battle when he attacked his soldiers with Kinney terrorists. This way and his heroism will serve as a model for every soldier and commander in the Paratroops for many years to come. “