Yossi Morag

Yossi Morag was born in 1952 in Austria

Yossi Morag was born Yosef Markovich on March 19, 1952, in Austria. He was known by the nickname Chetz.

He joined the IDF and served in the Armored Corps, where he trained as a tank crewman, tank commander and armor officer. He led a tank platoon and a company. In the First Lebanon War he commanded Armored Battalion 795, and he later commanded reserve armored brigades 213 and 550.

After leaving the army, he founded and ran the Neve Carmel caravan site in 1992. He then worked in life insurance and pension advice, and managed the Lev Hair mall in Nazareth Illit, Design Center and the Hutzot HaMifratz shopping center from 1998 to 2010. He also advised the city of Haifa on its lower city and port campus, and worked as a business consultant and mediator.

Serious health problems led him to write poetry, and in 2019 he published the poetry book Tamid Tisha'er Tmuna. He died on April 30, 2019, and was buried in Sde Yehoshua cemetery. He left a wife and 4 children.