Yagur, Daniel-David (“Danny”)

Son of Yosef and Orna. Born in Tel Aviv on September 19, 1951. He studied at the Hasmonean Elementary School in Ramat Gan and at the Yehuda Halevi School in Tel Aviv, and after completing his studies, he studied for a year at the Tel Aviv Municipal High School. His quiet character was already strong and his sense of humor was strong: he would choose serious subjects for his compositions and analyze them with great art, and this was a great pleasure for his friends, who were looking forward to hearing from him. He joined the Scouts movement, was active in it and completed a course for counselors, and maintained close ties with his friends in the school and the movement. His family went to the United States to study at the Syracuse School in New York for his father, the chemist, where he continued his high school studies, and his friends enjoyed him very much and enjoyed his cheerfulness, his delight, his good Lev and his special sense of humor. Although he was a brilliant talent, he was modest and shy, he always wanted to be one of the guys and not stand out, he played the guitar and loved modern music, he loved sports and especially football. Although he was not a Matmid type who devoted much time to sport and social activities, he was an outstanding student and excelled in every school he studied. When he was a student at the New York State School he won first prize in mathematics in a competition among all the county schools. On his second visit to the United States, he skipped a high school class where he graduated from high school and won a matriculation certificate even before the age of 17. With this certificate, he entered Columbia University in New York (after receiving a scholarship), where he studied for one year in chemical engineering. There, too, he participated in many games of the university football team. Immediately after the end of the school year, in June 1969, he returned to Israel, as he put it, “to fulfill his duty.” Despite the possibility of continuing his studies in the academic reserve (he was accepted as a student at the Technion in Haifa while still abroad), he decided to join the Nahal Brigade and was drafted into the IDF at the end of July 1969, even before he turned 18. His worried parents explained that he could not sit down to study when his peers risked their lives. He always made strict demands on himself, demands of loyalty, truth and duty. His path was through morality in everything he did. He chose the hard way and was at peace with himself, for he believed in her willingness. During his service he contracted jaundice, and after leaving the hospital he was given a low “profile” for several months. But he hid it from his commanders in order to embark on operational activities with his comrades. When he was stationed in the Sinai Brigade, he volunteered for a month of service in the Gaza Strip reconnaissance unit, and was seriously injured while carrying out his duties during a tour of the sands near Rafah and was taken to a hospital in Be’er Sheva. The hospital nurses and friends said that although he suffered from severe pain and was subject to morphine, he managed to smile and joke and fear that he would not be able to recover in time to go to the battalion with his fellow members of the nucleus. And his condition was defined as the most severe Helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa, where special care. His friends and parents sat there day and night by his bed waiting for a miracle. But Danny did not regain consciousness and never saw them again. All the doctors’ efforts to save his life were in vain. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5731 (30.9.1970)), Died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. The commander of the unit wrote to his parents in a letter of condolence: “Danny returned from abroad before his enlistment and despite the possibility that he had to study in the academic reserve, he decided to enlist in the Nahal Brigade. Danny went out to all the operational activities willingly and was Simcha to contribute his part to the IDF, but he was nevertheless a peace lover, and the identity disk and the symbol of peace hung together on his neck, a combination of soldiers with a desire for peace. The nucleus without Danny, with his perpetual smile on his face and jokes constantly coming out of his mouth, he was an exemplary soldier and he did everything he did with loyalty and devotion. His friends from the United States sent many donations to commemorate his name, and at the request of his parents the money was dedicated to the Fund for the Rehabilitation of IDF Soldiers, founded by the Ministry of Defense, and a memorial wall at the Yehuda Halevy School in Tel Aviv.