Yogev, Nir

Ben Tzila and David. He was born in Safed on September 19, 1966. He took his first steps in Kibbutz Sasa and began his studies at the elementary school in the Ivory Coast (Kurogo) while the family was there on an errand.In 1970, upon her return to Israel, Nir graduated from the Moshe Hess Elementary School. He completed his high school studies at the Amal 1 Technological College in Petah Tikva. He was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, first as an apprentice and later as a counselor. He liked sports, played basketball in the Petah Tikva municipal league and tennis at leisure. Prior to his enlistment, he volunteered and worked within the framework of the Civil Guard and filled a variety of command positions with a high degree of skill and personal responsibility. In February 1980, he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, completed his studies in the tank corps, and was ordained as a maintenance officer in 1983. In 1983, he volunteered for a career army, and in 1985 he married Galia. Fought in battles in the eastern front and spent two years in Lebanon, where he served as a maintenance officer in a reserve brigade in the south, with the rank of lieutenant.In October 1986 he went on to graduate studies at the Institute for Productivity in Tel Aviv and completed his two positions in the Golan Heights as an officer Maintenance in a regular artillery brigade and attained the rank of major He loved to photograph and photograph the family at all times, sculpted with basalt stones, was a man of books and read most of the Hebrew literature, he loved to raise animals, was an apprentice and master of mechanics and metalwork, He was a devoted and loving family man and was characterized by cold-heartedness, patience, integrity, restraint and determination Nir fell in the course of his job in a road accident during an exercise in the Golan Heights on 21.10.1992 and was laid to rest at the cemetery Military ‘Segula’. Survived by Raya, Bat-Or, Ben-Shahar, parents and two brothers – Ronen and Nitzan. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote that Nir was an outstanding officer, who set high norms for himself and his subordinates, and whose stamp was evident in both the social and the professional spheres. A monument was erected in the place where it fell (the oil axis) and a grove was planted in its memory. In the camp where he served, a briefing room was set up in his memory, and in his professional school he was immortalized on the wall of the fallen. His father David established an environmental sculpture in his memory at the Yad Labanim Park in Petach Tikva; The sculpture is made of steel and a pair of basalt stones, brought from the Golan Heights.