Yatziv, Yosef

Yosef, son of Yaffa and Shimon, was born in Kfar Ruppin on Friday, 18.5.1945, and studied at the boys’ education center in Neve Eitan, he graduated from high school in the twelfth grade of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutzim In Beit Berl. From his childhood, he had developed a technical sense and a tendency to wonder about the innards of machines. These qualities were to help him in his military service. He loved agriculture and at the end of his studies worked the best beet harvest of his kibbutz. He was an average, solid boy who was called “Patza.” He was considered mischievous, fond of pranks and jolly, but those who knew him well knew that he also had seriousness, and responsibility, expressed in the work of the agriculture and his love for literature. Yosef was drafted into the IDF in November 1964. As a member of the army, he served in the Armored Corps and was appointed to the Armored Corps. He did not like strict discipline and formal procedures, and as a sign of Mario’s he grew long and tangled hair. he was about to be discharged from regular service in early June 1967, but his release was postponed due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War. Of the Tal Division, the Rafah Brigade, and the Gaza Strip After the war, he did not accept the requests of his commanders to volunteer for regular army service and returned to his farm, and he soon became responsible for the sophisticated harvesting machines of cotton and beets, but the narrow world of the kibbutz seemed to be a bit of a strain on him. As a security officer in El Al, when the Yom Kippur War broke out, patza was recruted into his unit, which took part in the battles of containment against the Egyptians in northern Sinai On October 8, 1973, Yosef was killed by an enemy shell while standing in a turret, In the area of the Firdan Bridge. He was laid to rest in the Ruppin village cemetery. He was survived by a father, a mother, two brothers and a sister. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote that Yosef was loved by his commanders and soldiers and fulfilled his duty with devotion. His kibbutz published a pamphlet in his memory.