Yonis, Zevulun

Son of-Avraham-Shlomo and Piga. He was born on July 25, 1945 in Kiryat Haim, near Haifa. A Simcha child was good-hearted and thus gained the hearts of others. He completed his studies at the Revivim Elementary School in the Kirya and later at the “Technikon” school in Haifa. His entire being was full of life and a smile, and he never knew anger or irritation, nor could he be angry with him. He always tried to make peace among his friends and succeeded. He belonged to the movement’s branch of Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed in Kiryat Haim and was a counselor and coordinator of the “Kinn” in Yad Eliyahu. He was interested in sports (especially basketball). He was a member of Ma’ayan Baruch in the Upper Galilee. He was drafted into the IDF in October 1963 and served in the paratroop brigade. He passed a training course and guided the course in a paratroop brigade. In one of his letters from the advanced training course, he wrote: “The difficulty of being a parachutist is not the difficulty of falling, but of passing through and suffering from an arduous training session and when you look back you are filled with satisfaction from your achievements.” He had no challenges and did not retreat from any mission and proudly walked with his red cap on his head and the wings of the paratrooper on his chest. But in the meantime he realized that he had nothing to look for in the army anymore, and that he had already given his hand. Then he felt that he should return to Ma’ayan Baruch. But the army did not give up on him and left him as a guide to another cycle. He remained humble and simple because he knew the soul of the soldier and helped his students whom they loved and admired to overcome all the difficulties. In the meantime, the end of the cycle was over, and Zevulun returned to his kibbutz and to his working life in the farm, and to his delight there was no end, because his greatest wish was to live and work together with his friends as citizens without authority and discipline. But after a short period of time, he volunteered to train in the movement and left the farm – and he did. He would rarely come to the farm for lack of time and dedication to his job. From time to time he went to reserve duty, and in this framework he was also in the Six-Day War. He fought on the Golan Heights and fell in a battle that took place there on June 10, 1967, when a house of enemy forces was cleansed and displayed heroism and willingness to sacrifice. “In his book,” On Their Way “, published by the Union of the Kibbutzim and the Kibbutzim in memory, Yad Vashem published a pamphlet in memory of two more of its members, and a” booklet “bearing his name was published by Machko. Members of the Union who fell in the campaign are devoted to several pages about him, his image and his government, and also the group’s “Yniv HaGo’el” In his book “The Trees That Were Cut” for the children of Kiryat Hayim, his name is mentioned in the book “The Longest Month” by Dr. M. Bar-Zohar and “Paratroopers from Sinai to Golan”. In Gogli Esh, vol. 4, the school bag of the sons of the fallen soldiers in Israel, was brought from his estate