Yossi Tahar, 39, was an agent of the Israel Security Agency (also known as the Shin Bet). He worked in a secret unit that can take credit for preventing many terror attacks, and his photograph cannot yet be published even posthumously. He had no official reason to be at the scene on October 7, but he took a small combat team there to rescue a wounded fighter who belonged to the unit. After first aid for the wounded man — who later was helicoptered out, and his life was saved — Tahar continued to the area of Kibbutz Miflasim, where a fierce battle was under way. Under fire, Tahar managed to find a radio that belonged to the terrorists and listen a while in order to understand how they were deployed. Later, he eliminated two terrorists in their pickup truck but dozens more terrorists arrived, heading toward Miflasim. Some of them shot at him while hiding behind a mobile shelter, and he was killed. Still, his heroic fighting at the entrance to Miflasim on October 7 helped protect the emergency squad of the kibbutz as they overcame the terrorists who had invaded the kibbutz, and the kibbutz was saved from a massacre. May he rest in peace.
