Aharonson, Mordechai

Aharonson, Mordechai

Mordechai (Moti), son of Yitzhak and Esther, was born on March 4, 1949 in Tel Aviv, to parents who came from the DP camps in Cyprus, where they were transferred from Romania to Israel, drafted into the IDF in February 1967. He was assigned to the Armored Corps, was trained at the school and took an armor officer. He saw in his military service a mission and a supreme goal. He did not stop trying to convince his younger brother to join the Armored Corps. The Six-Day War left a deep impression on him, which he also expressed in songs. In a poem he dedicated to his mother, Moti wrote: “We went out with the evening, a light breeze, and you know my mother, my last way. And when a hot enemy bullet blew my Lev / I saw your eyes. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Lieutenant Moti was sent to the Suez Canal with his unit, and on October 10, 1973, the tanks under his command were attacked by the enemy planes and he was killed at the age of 24. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul left behind a wife and parents

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