Yishai, Uriel

Son of Israel and Joy. He was born on December 5, 1947 in the city of Tunis. His father was chief rabbi in Sousse, Tunisia, from 1956 until the family immigrated to Israel. He graduated from the Alliance high school in Sosa and began his high school studies there. He had a strong love for Israel and when he was 15 years old, and saw that his parents could not immigrate to Israel for family reasons, decided to immigrate alone with Youth Aliyah. He was educated in Kfar Hasidim, a religious youth village, and studied in an agricultural school until 1966. His parents immigrated to Israel in 1965. However, since there was no one to work and support them, they asked him to postpone his service in the IDF. But Uriel did not want to unload the burden of the IDF and therefore left the house in secret and left a letter to his parents, in which he wrote that he wanted to fight for the homeland. He was drafted into the IDF in September 1967. His parents did not even know his address until November 1969. His brother, who was in regular service, looked for him and brought him home, and he was Simcha to see his family, After his service in April, he returned to his home and worked for the family On March 25, 1970, a soldier was killed in the Suez Canal stronghold as a result of the bombing of an enemy aircraft. That he was under my command. I knew a lot of soldiers during my service in the army – – – but Uriel was one of the few who stood wonderfully under the pressure of war and never encountered such an initiative of a human being “