Yehoshua Bar-on

Yehoshua Bar-on was born in 1949 in Nahalal

Yehoshua Bar-on, known as Shuka, was born on May 31, 1949, in Nahalal to Haya and Uri Bar-on. He grew up in Moshav Orot and went to the Mevo'ot elementary school in Be'er Tuvia. He later studied at the military boarding school for command next to the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.

He joined the IDF in August 1967. After tank commander and armor officer courses, he became a platoon commander in the tank commanders course. He ended his regular service in 1972 as a tank company commander.

After his release he began studying geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the Yom Kippur War he commanded Company H of Battalion 409 in Brigade 600. He was wounded when his tank was hit, yet led his crew out and kept commanding from another tank, and in the Battle of the Chinese Farm he ran into a minefield to rescue a missing soldier.

He was released from reserve duty in April 1974 and went back to his studies. At the end of 1976 he took a battalion commanders course and returned to career service as commander of Battalion 195. He was killed in a road accident on August 24, 1977, and was buried in the military cemetery in Be'er Tuvia.