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Yaguri Asa

Yaguri Asa


Son of Yitzhak and Rachel. A descendant of the Biluim family. He was born on the 12th of Tevet 5737 (12.1.1937) in Kibbutz Yagur. A mentor in a family that was nurtured on the knees of fulfilling Zionism and national values. He completed high school (12 grades) at the school in Yagur, was a member of the kibbutz, loved work, and was a farmer in all sectors of the agriculture without self-expression, because he was in hiding in the cowshed, And as a treasurer, he served as a treasurer, even though he had a strong desire to work in the farm and field, and when he came to work among the youth he bought everyone’s Lev. Who soon became his own distress. “When he was drafted into a position outside the home, he used to argue:” I turn around He was a member of HaPoel, was drafted into the IDF in August 1955 and served in the paratroop paratroop brigade and also underwent various courses and participated in reprisals before the Sinai Campaign and in the campaign itself He was a soldier in the army and was always a resourceful fighter, and he was always very resourceful in his mission, and when he approached the days of the Six-Day War he was still restless and tense. Face to face with the enemy emerging from the ditch. He led his company in a minefield under heavy bombardment and flat-trajectory fire-and on the way to the destination he was the first. Within the target that had died. It was on the first day of the fighting, June 26, 1967. He was buried at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem and was later transferred to eternal rest in the cemetery in his kibbutz. The statement of courage was commended by the OC Central Command. Two soldiers, who fought alongside him and were with him until his final moments, called their sons who were born next to that date in his name. They also called their sons for years to work with him in the youth movements and from his acquaintance with him. The local council of Mevasseret Zion referred to the name of Sheikh Abdel Aziz (among whose liberators was Asa) as “Yad Asa.” In the memorial room among its initiators was Asa, a plaque (and a photograph of him) was set up commemorating his name. In Yagur’s diary, which was published in “Thirty” in memory of the boys, his memory was raised with several other friends. The kibbutz also published a booklet “In Memory” – and the first section dedicated to Asa. In his book “The Book of Heroism,” published by the Association of Journalists in Tel Aviv and the World Alliance of Bergen-Belsen Survivors, the book tells of the heroism for which he received the medal. The name is mentioned in the book “Wars of Israel” by Ephraim Talmi and even in “Battle of the Monastery” by Aryeh Hashaviya. In the book “Those Who Fell in the War” about the members of Hakibbutz Hameuhad who fell during the Six Day War and after it, his name was immortalized. In Volume 4 of “Goily Ash”, the bag of the estate of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars, was brought from his estate. His name is also mentioned in several articles published in the pamphlets of Bamaleh, Bamahaneh and Ma’arachot.

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