Vogel, Dan

Dan, son of Ahuva and Moshe, was born on July 4, 1949 in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the elementary school in Ramat Hahayal and later completed two years of studies in a vocational school in Jaffa with the aim of shoemaking. He was only a fifteen-year-old man when he went to work to help support the meager household, and after a year his parents separated and the burden of supporting the household was imposed entirely on his shoulders. Alone, he found some compensation for his difficult life in the “Scouts” movement, where he was active, and tried not to miss any trip, work camp, or action by the Scout movement. He became a warm, understanding and helpful man for Danny, and spent most of his spare time in the nest. The friendship he had created at that time was preserved for many years after he left the nest, and even after that, he was able to learn to teach and teach other people. Who married a wife and established a family. His contemporaries remember those days as an amazingly Yaffa period of time, with Danny at the center. Dan was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of August 1967. He was enthusiastic about the new experience and asked to volunteer for the paratroopers, but his great concern for the home and his mother’s difficult economic situation compelled him to ask for conditions to help him continue his work After completing basic training, he was assigned to a supply base, serving as a kitchen worker, enabling him to obtain special approval for civilian work during his service in the IDF. He was very proud of being a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, loved the uniform and spent hours polishing and improving his appearance, and he became very fond of the staff and his superiors. After being released from regular service, Dan married Simha, a young kindergarten teacher he had met at the end of his service and moved to live with her in Rishon Letzion. Slowly and with the joint efforts of the couple, Danny began to improve his residence to make him a cozy and warm home to which he had always desired. He managed to save money to buy a television set and even purchased a stereophonic system, in order to improve leisure time at home. When his eldest son Sharon was born, Danny became a wonderful father. From the moment he returned from work to the bed of the son in his bed in the evening, he played with him, went out with him on trips around and played a lot with him. The birth of the son turned him from a mischievous young man into a mature, responsible and reasonable man. He enrolled in housing schemes for young couples and began to save steadily. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Danny was at the Oracle outpost on the banks of the Suez Canal as part of reserve duty, which began about two weeks before the outbreak of the fighting. On the 7th of Tishrei 5740 (7.10.1973) Danny was in the half-track with the force that withdrew from the position under enemy pressure, and during the retreat the force encountered an ambush of Egyptian soldiers and since then its traces have disappeared. His body was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, leaving behind a wife and son, parents and two brothers.