Wiernik, Joseph

Joseph, son of Rivka and Mendel, was born in Tel Aviv on the 29th of March, 1944. He enlisted in the IDF and was assigned to the Golani Brigade, where he did not know the difficulty of his training as a child, After his regular service, he thought of studying medicine, and because of the difficulties of admitting to the Faculty of Medicine, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the suggestion of his older brother, who was then a law student. During his studies at the university He was active in the institutions of the Student Union of the Hebrew University branch in Tel Aviv, which merged with Tel Aviv University, and represented the Student Union in the reserve coordination committee, which was recognized by almost all the students He served in the reserves as a combat medic in the Golani Brigade, participated in many operational missions and during the Six-Day War he was stationed in his unit before he was drafted. After the Six-Day War he got married, and in 1969 his first daughter, Sharon, was born. On Yom Kippur he received an order to enlist members of his unit, and on Yom Kippur he joined the Medical Corps unit, which established a field hospital in the El Al area in the Golan Heights, where he worked day and night. On the evening of Succoth, the 14th of Tishrei 5734, the enemy landed an artillery fire at the hospital, while the doctors and paramedics were busy saving lives, and Joseph was hit and killed, and he was first laid to rest in a temporary cemetery in Nahariya And was then laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery, where his brother placed a wife, daughter, son born after his death Mo, parents, two brothers and a sister In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Yosef fell in the Golan Heights in the course of his duty. Joseph served in a medical unit and played an important role in helping the wounded. During this work he fell.