Joseph, son of Tzila and Kopel Hacohen, was born on 24 May 1946 in Freising, Germany, and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1949. Yossi attended the Nitzanim Elementary School in Ramat Gan and completed the He studied at the “Atid” elementary school in Ramat Yitzhak and studied at the Amal High School in Petach Tikvah, where he was a sensitive and sensitive youngster who came to Israel from Germany with his parents when he was about three years old. In the neighborhood of his parents’ home in Ramat Gan, he was a devoted student who loved his teachers and friends, and was very devoted to his parents, caring for his younger sister, Rachel, who was honest and conscientious and did not stand by when his neighbor was wronged. Who left the Amal high school, chose to study as a rookie at the Naval Technical School in Haifa. With a black forelock on his forehead, his green eyes said the wisdom of life and the love of men. Yosef was drafted into the IDF in early April 1964 and volunteered for the Navy After completing his basic training, he completed a course in steam engine machines and served for a while aboard the destroyer “Jaffa.” At the beginning of June 1966, Yosef was discharged from the army. One of them was transferred from the Navy to the Artillery Corps, first as a field artillery operator and later as a noncom in an anti-aircraft crew, and his company commander says: “Verona was a very alert person. There was no field he did not know or deal with. He was a gunner in his military profession, but in fact he also dealt with all other matters related to the team and performed many tasks voluntarily. Yossi was the man who took care of everything in the unit. “Friends and commanders praised Yossi’s devotion and appreciated him as an excellent soldier.” It’s hard to get used to the bitter fact that Yossi will no longer be with us in the battery. It is difficult, because without his humorous humor, the pranks, and his natural cheerfulness, which created a good spirit for all the soldiers, it seems that some of the wonderful spirit in the battery has disappeared, “said the deputy commander of the battery. , Settled in Ramat Gan and joined Egged as a driver. Friends say Yossi was an outstanding driver and a loyal friend. “He was always willing to help, to lean in the moments of loss of the road or despair. With his wife and his co-workers Joseph went on trips and trips on holidays and holidays, and everyone remembered with longing the nightly baths, meals, and other surprises he had prepared for them. Yossi loved the country, led his friends along hidden paths and “infected” everyone with a love of the homeland. “Yossi was a man of pure truth, without falsification, he was said to have been quiet, and indeed he was not one of those shouting and waving slogans, he was like quiet water that penetrated deeply,” said one of his friends. In August 1968, their first son, Avigdor, was born to the Veronese, and in February 1971, with the birth of their city, Joseph became the happiest father of two sons. He was Simcha with his lot, devoted to his family and work, and looked to the future with faith and confidence. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yossi was called to his unit in the Artillery Corps and sent to the southern front. He fought fiercely and fiercely in all the battles and even encouraged his friends. On October 18, 1973, he arrived with his unit for bridges erected on the water line, and the commander of the company relates that when his soldiers arrived at the “yard” near the bridges, they encountered fire. “They all jumped out of the half-tracks and quickly hid in the field.After a while, when the shelling was a little reprieve, I ordered the boys to go back to the dishes, but they were still stunned by the noise and did not rush to get up.The first one to obey the order was Verona, He drove him to the dike. aboutHalf an hour later, Yossi was killed by shrapnel from a shrapnel. “Yosef was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, where he left behind a wife and two sons, a father, a mother and a sister. Joseph’s work, and wrote: “Joseph was an active and efficient soldier. He was a great help to his colleagues in exemplary work. In moments of tension and difficulty he knew how to calm friends and it was right to do whatever was imposed on him. The battalion lost an excellent soldier, and his place in the unit will remain as a person, as a friend and as a friend. “Yosef’s friends, members of Egged, published memoirs about Yossi’s character and way in his memoir” To Our Friends. “
