Dan, son of Yehudit and Aryeh-Raphael, was born on October 18, 1944, in Bucharest, Romania, While his parents, survivors of the death camps in Poland, made their way to Palestine. He studied at Matmid Elementary School in Ramat Gan and later attended the agricultural high school in Kfar Hayarok, and together with his classmates joined the Nahal Brigade. Dan was drafted into the IDF at the end of September 1962 and began his service at Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the framework of the Nahal Brigade, and in 1963 he took part in a course for general paramedics and was transferred to the Israel Air Force where he served as an aviation medic. In mid-March 1965, Danny was discharged from the regular army, He studied medicine at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he studied for three years and completed his studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University in 1971. He was joyful of life and friends liked him for his simplicity, his direct and natural approach, and for his patience and forgiveness He was a gentleman with a sense of humor, and Danny had a modest, good personality. He was a member of the “Green Village” football team and won the table tennis championship there, and he liked to spend his time outdoors, He enjoyed the sun and the wind, the sea and the waves, and his love for the children led him to the children’s department at the Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, where he completed his internship in pediatrics and became an active spirit in the department. mothers and children became a large family, all of whom asked the advice of the young doctor, who kept warmth, and affection for each child. Dr. Moshe Brent, the department’s director, described Danny in his work: “The department had a home, and it identified with it completely, with its functions, goals and needs. As far as I’d come early in the morning to the ward-Dan was already there; If I went in the evening-Dan was there or just left, or just called. On vacations from the reserves he would first pass through the department and then go home – he must have been able to taste the sweet taste of the full combination of his personal life and medical life. Three months before he fell, he submitted his doctoral dissertation on the subject of “The use of intravenous feeding in the Pediatrics Department of a general hospital.” When the Six-Day War broke out, Danny rushed to the hospital, After completing his studies, he successfully completed a medical corps officer’s course and was awarded the rank of officer in the army, and in 1970 he married Dorina, whom he met during the Six Day War. She attended the nursing school at Tel Hashomer, where Danny was In 1972, his daughter, Dana, was born and he spent much time with her on his free time, and Dorina and Danny wanted another daughter wich was born after Dannys fall. Danny, who was stationed in the center of the country, volunteered to serve as a doctor in for a field hospital in the Golan Heights on October 10, 1973, a week before his twenty-ninth birthday, when the enemy fell on our forces He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife, two daughters, a mother, a twin sister – Nili and a sister Tamar. The chief of staff noted Danny’s praise for his behavior on the battlefield. “On October 10, 1973, Dr. Dan Yalon served as a doctor at the field hospital in the Golan Heights, in the El Al area. When heavy shelling began on a helicopter evacuation point, all the people in the area dispersed to take cover. Despite the explicit warnings not to get up because of the heavy artillery, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Yalon returned to treat the wounded in the tent, during which he was injured and fell. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the Chief Medical Officer wrote: “We grieve for the loss of a good friend who sacrificed himself in an attempt to save casualties and thus fulfilled the oath of the Hebrew doctor.” The Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera established a library in his honor. His family donated all Danny’s textbooks and professional journals to the library
