Yocheved Kashi
Yocheved Kashi (
Biography
Early years
Kashi was born in Mashhad, Iran. Her parents emigrated from Russian Central Asia to Iran before she was born and settled in the city of Mashhad.[3][2] When Kashi was 3 years old, in 1932, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. At the age of 17, Kashi joined the underground organization Haganah.[2]
Military career
In May 1948, Kashi enlisted in the IDF Women's Corps and served as a lieutenant colonel and instructor. In 1950, she completed the officers' course, after which she was stationed at the parachuting school, and later at the Tel Nof Airbase. There, she commanded the parachute folding unit.[3]
Kashi applied to take a
However, Kashi wanted to become a paratrooper, and continued doing jumps, until she completed the required 12 successful jumps, which gave her the paratrooper wings badge and which made her the first female paratrooper of the IDF.[2] A photo of Kashi appeared on an Independence Day poster in 1951.
Kashi was honorably discharged from military service in 1952, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After the army
After being discharged in 1952, Kashi married the painter Zvi Milstein. The couple moved to France after Milstein received a scholarship to study in France in 1956.[2] Yocheved taught plastic arts at a university in Paris.
Family
Yocheved Kashi was the older sister of the singer Aliza Kashi. Kashi and Milstein's son, Uri, is a film producer and lives in France.[4] Kashi was lastly living in a nursing home in Normandy, after Milstein died in 2020.
References
- ^ יוכבד מילשטיין ז"ל (in Hebrew)
- ^ a b c d e f g .יוכבד קאשי. הצנחנית הראשונה בצה"ל. The Paratroop's Heritage Association
- ^ a b סג"מ יוכבד קאשיץ The Paratroop's Heritage Association
- ^ a b נוסטלגיה: 70 שנים אחרי. Israel Hayom