Yoav Brom

Yoav Brom was born in 1941 in Shefayim

Yoav Brom was born in 1941 to Ida and Avraham Brom. He grew up on Kibbutz Shefayim.

He joined the IDF in 1959 and served in the Golani Brigade reconnaissance unit. He completed infantry squad leader and officer courses. In 1962 he led a platoon in the Nukeib operation and received a brigade commander's citation.

After his release he returned to the kibbutz and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics at the Hebrew University. He worked as a teacher and later became principal of the high school. As a reservist he fought in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition.

He later returned to career service and retrained in the Armored Corps. When the Yom Kippur War began, he came back from a vacation in France and took command of Reconnaissance Battalion 87. His battalion found the gap between the Egyptian armies, which made the canal crossing possible, and he was killed in the crossing battle.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel after his death and awarded the Medal of Courage. A memorial made from the turret of his tank stands on Kibbutz Shefayim.