Allega, Menachem

Son of Na’ama and Yosef. He was born on Wednesday, 18 April 1915, in Salonika, Greece, where he taught Hebrew and Zionist education to his eight children, where he completed an Italian gymnasium and studied for a while in an officer’s school. In 1933 he immigrated to Israel and moved to Rehovot where he worked as a laborer and joined the General Federation of Labor, and about a year later joined the Haganah and in the 1936 riots volunteered for the Guard Corps and served in the area . He held security positions in various parts of the country. He was a member of Nodedat, stayed for about a month at Hanita, held guard positions at the Weizman House in Rehovot, and also maintained a factory in Rishon Letzion. Menachem was on the ladder of duty and in his last position was commander of a field company in Nahalat Yehuda. Among his friends he was known as a brave man, honest, kind and quiet, his gaze straight and a smile always hovering on his lips. He refused to join any political party because he himself was a non-partisan Zionist who fought for Hebrew labor, defense and the rise of an independent Hebrew state. On October 8, 1938, in the midst of the bloody events, he and two of his friends left for guard near an orchard between Beit Dagan and Rishon Letzion. Suddenly a fire opened from the orchard and after a gunfight, in which Menahem managed to shoot 25 bullets and reload his rifle, he was seriously wounded in the head. The attack was repulsed when army and police units arrived. Menachem was evacuated from the area, but on the following day, on the 9th of Tishrei 9, 1938, he died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Rehovot. Put down a fireplace.