Yahil, Jonathan (“Johnny”)

Son of Haim and Lenny. He was born on June 4, 1945 in Tel Aviv. When he was two, his mother and children joined his father, who was then on a national mission to Holocaust survivors in the Jewish refugee camps in Germany. (His mother, incidentally, is a Holocaust historian at the Hebrew University). Where they spent a year and a half. A second time he left for Germany, and again for a year and a half, when his father was assigned a mission from the Foreign Ministry; When the family returned to Israel in 1954, she settled in Jerusalem and Yonatan was admitted to the Luria School in Katamon. Two years later the family moved abroad for a third time when his father was appointed Israeli ambassador to Sweden – and spent two years with his parents in Stockholm. He attended the school for diplomats’ children there and spent another year in a boarding school in England with his brother Amos (now professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). He was fourteen years old when he returned to Israel and since then he has not left her, and the family’s many shakes have made it difficult for him to continue his regular studies, but he overcame them over the years and was a lively and cheerful child. He loved all of his life, and above all he loved Jerusalem, and throughout his life he discovered his love for Adam, wanted to know him and was willing to serve him at any time. He graduated from high school at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and loved Amn And even as he grew older, he continued to paint, but he would criticize his paintings, because he would dismiss those he did not like because they were imperfect, and his eye was open to a sensitive picture of beauty in form, color, , And his taste was evident in the planning of his room in Jerusalem and in his apartment in Haifa later, and despite his delicacy and meticulous demands, he was very understanding of the feelings of people who were not so sensitive to aesthetics. He also worked in athletics, and especially in long runs. He loved riding and riding a horse (which he had learned while he was in Sweden) and other water sports. As soon as he enlisted, he was among the initiators of a group of Tsofim to join the Nahal Brigade in order to connect with the development programs in Ein Gedi, which he particularly liked, but he did not manage to be with his friends. , Passed an officer’s training course, an officer’s school, a training course in an officer’s school; These were his service stations in the army, which ended three years later with the rank of lieutenant. After his release from the army, he married Miriam Weinstein (now Miriam Yachil-Wax) – and the couple settled in Haifa, when Yonatan was preparing to study at the Hebrew Technion there; He wanted to study architecture and urban planning. In the meantime, he worked in technical and artistic works, such as setting up a puppet theater for advertising purposes, and then painting and setting up backdrops for the Haifa Municipal Theater. He did all this work out of a tendency to beauty and his rich imagination. These tendencies led him to choose the profession of architecture, for he saw the merging of work and utility, beauty and imagination alike – the ultimate goal for which he said to specialize in city planning and planning and to do so in one of the development areas. The pairing of the two qualities – love for beauty and service to man was before his eyes when he decided to dedicate his life to city-building; He aspired to see the person in an environment that suited him and within the natural landscape suited him; It was the dream of his great life. About two weeks before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he was called to the flagRuth reserve duty. And on the second day of her battles, he was 26 Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), fell as a platoon commander in the vicinity of Jerusalem in a battle held in Abu Tor; He fell first at the head of his platoon. The wife who had not yet completed a year of marriage. Was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. At the Hebrew Technion in Haifa, a scholarship fund was established in honor of outstanding students in urban planning. The Jerusalem Scouts erected a memorial to five of their comrades who fell in the Six Day War – and he is among them. The Scout troop, which he headed for a while, issued a pamphlet in memory of three fallen members of the battalion. His family published a pamphlet in his memory. In the booklet “One Gray Battalion” 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.