Zohar (Keller), Yosef
Son of-Eliezer and Genia. He was born on May 14, 1946 in Russia. In 1948 the family immigrated to Israel. After completing his elementary studies at the Rashi School in Jaffa, he completed and completed the religious high school in Rehovot and completed his first year at Bar-Ilan University in physics and mathematics, where he taught physics and mathematics in high school. 1966 and served in the Navy. Joseph volunteered for the submarine squadron and was ordained as a submarine in April 1967. He went to England and joined the crew of the Dakar submarine. But on the way home, to the port of Haifa, on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with her was cut off and was never renewed. This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Rabbinate of Israel decided that the date of Joseph’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on the 30th of Tevet 5728 (30.1.1968). Since Joseph was one of the missing team members, a memorial monument was placed inside him in a memorial to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker,” his picture was presented. The Misgav Dov committee established a synagogue named after Ohel Yosef and the parents donated a Torah scroll to this synagogue. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.
