Marek Yames

Marek Yames was born in 1947 in Regensburg

Marek Yames was born in 1947 in Regensburg, Germany, to parents who survived the Holocaust. As a child he immigrated to Israel with his mother.

He studied at the Omariya elementary school and at the high school attached to the university in Jerusalem. He liked electronics and sports and belonged to the Hashomer Hatzair movement. In high school he moved to the youth group at Kibbutz Mizra.

He joined the IDF in November 1965 and served in the Armored Corps as a tank gunner and tank commander. He fought in Sinai in the Six-Day War, then became an officer and rose to company commander. He left the army in mid-1971 and began studying electrical and electronics engineering at the Technion.

He married during his service, and a son was born to the couple in 1972. In the Yom Kippur War he was called up as deputy commander of a reconnaissance battalion in Division 162 and took command after the commander was wounded. He was killed on 18 October 1973 in the attack on an Egyptian position west of the Suez Canal and was promoted to major after his death.