Zevdi, Yoel-Dov

Zevdi, Yoel-Dov


Son of Shlomo and Miriam. Born on 25 June 1947 in Petach Tikva, fifth generation in Israel (on the father’s side), he completed his studies at the PICA elementary school and at the Ahad Ha’am Gymnasium. He tended to study foreign languages ​​and loved to read Hebrew literature. Was hard and hard on the outside but soft inside and would raise his feelings and reflections in poetry. He was a gentle soul and was very virtuous. He aspired to peace and did not understand why and why one sheds the blood of another. Even as a child, he stood out as an alert boy, loving order and precision. His kindness was expressed in his willingness to come to the aid of the other at any time and at any time was very attached to the house and the sons of the house. He was drafted into the IDF in August 1965 and served in the Golani Brigade, but he did not have the military ambition and did not aspire to a career in the army, but wanted to finish his service in the best possible way and continue his studies at the university without the help of his parents. In the middle of his service, the Six-Day War broke out, and on the fifth day of the battles, on June 9, 1967, Yoel-Dov fell in a battle in Tel-El-Fakhr on the Golan Heights, when he was hit by a sniper’s bullet The commander of his platoon who was wounded and rescued from the canal – without an order. Was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The commander of his regiment writes in his letter to the family that he was loyal and devoted to the battalion and the state, and that he never hesitated and did not hesitate to carry out the most difficult tasks, because he would have done everything with great devotion and devotion. In the Yalkut of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars – “Goily Ash”, Volume 4 – was brought from his estate.

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