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Yaish, Roi

Yaish, Roi

Roi, son of Tziona and Yosef Yaish, was born on October 23, 1979 at the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Roi joined the IDF at the end of March 1998 and was assigned to the Artillery Corps. He began his service at the artillery base in Shivta, and later moved to Egged Artillery at the Artillery Headquarters. At the beginning of the Second Lebanon War, on August 6, 2006, near the entrance to Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, Roi was critically injured and flown to the field hospital for further treatment; he was pronounced dead at 18:00. He was laid to rest in the Herzliya military cemetery. He was survived by parents, two brothers and a sister. After his fall he was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant.

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