Yaskin, Yosef

Son of Chaya and Yechezkel, born in 1912 in Petah Tikva, studied at Netzach Yisrael and was loyal to his father’s tradition. For a few years he worked as a carpenter who closes citrus boxes and later studied frameworks and worked in mechanical workshops, and for two years worked in this profession in the potash factory in the southern part of the sea In January 1940 he left the job to volunteer for the British Army, and when he was not accepted, he went to work for two years in the service of the war effort as a locksmith in the oil factories Where he founded a synagogue for religious workers and during his spare time he treated my children The local Jews planted in them a love for Judaism and the Land of Israel, taught them songs of the country and held educational balls for them, and also sent donations to the Jewish National Fund and to the Chabad synagogue in Petah Tikva. When he returned to Israel he lived peacefully in his family’s nest and eventually had a son and a daughter. Joseph was involved with the public interest and building the country and on various occasions, in contact with industrial entrepreneurs, would try to attract them to the realization of their plants in Petah Tikva or Netanya and wrote to these mayors will try to attract enterprising people to their places. Yosef served in the Haganah in the Alexandroni Brigade and was among the defenders of Moshav Ge’ulim, and at the time of the Iraqi attack on the moshav he volunteered first to go and call for help, but he left the post and after a few steps was hit by a bullet and fell on the 19th of Iyar, (28.5.1948) was buried in Petah Tikva on 18 July 1978, was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Netanya.