Yochai (Yochimak) and Yosef-Yehezkel
Son of Nathan and Tzipora. He was born on the 20th of Shvat 5639 (9/2939) in Jerusalem, in the midst of the bloody events in Israel, and graduated with honors from the Horev School in the Holy City and continued until the sixth grade. Where he completed his studies at the Teachers ‘Seminary and completed his studies at the Teachers’ College, where he joined the “Shalavim” nucleus and went there, joining the Nahal Brigade and joining the nucleus. After completing all stages of the advanced training and parachuting of the Nahal unit, he underwent a combat paramedics course, and when he was discharged from the army he wanted to join the Shalemim as a friend and returned there, but then he did as his father wished him to continue studying Torah for at least one year. He joined the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and was interested in geology, but he was forced to study at the “Merkaz Harav” Center. To leave the kibbutz because of his thirst for news – and in 1965 he settled at the Hebrew University Although he said he wanted to return to the kibbutz after completing his studies because he loved him and his garden, the landscape and the children in it, it was worth noting that when he lived in the kibbutz he planned the children’s trips he liked and during his trips, Hasidic roots with deep roots in the landscape of the country and the nature in which he specialized in knowledge of the country and geology and his love for agriculture, he was free to hear in the fields of botany and genetics. He was forced to work hard – as a teacher at the Beit Shemesh school and at the Education Center for the Blind, and worked part-time in the Jewish Agency’s Department of Education and Culture and was a tour guide. Out of love for the Holy City, he would lead the travelers to various places from which you could glimpse the “Western Wall”. He was also sent to lecture on the landscape of the country on behalf of the “Kedumim Company” to which he belonged. Together with these occupations he did not neglect the study of the Talmud and when he was free he hurried to the university to study and study the books – where he met his wife, who had completed her doctorate in genetics at the time. He was drafted into the IDF in September 1958 and served in the Nahal paramilitary brigade. He was also in reserve duty when the Six-Day War broke out. On the eve of Rosh Chodesh Sivan (8.6.1967), on the eve of Rosh Chodesh Sivan (8.6.1967), he was to marry him, and on the Sabbath preceding his marriage he immigrated to the Torah, as is customary in Israel. The evening before they fell, he spoke by telephone to his parents who suggested that he ask for a special leave, because they did not want to postpone the wedding day, so his answer was: “Now I do not belong to myself. Because his unit went out to capture Shaykh Jarrah on the way to the Temple Mount, burst out of the Mandelbaum Gate and as a combat paramedic, Joseph was caught by a paratroopers unit and was encouraged by a deadly Jordanian bombardment and encouraged his friends to say: “Do not be afraid! “I still remember the way there …” A shell also hit him as he helped the wounded and his soul came out with the words “Shema Yisrael”; It was the second day of the fighting, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967). Was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the book “Marinas Gabro” published by the Paratroopers Headquarters is devoted to a page of his history and description of the last battle.
