Antonovsky, Menachem

Son of Shifra and Shlomo, was born in December 1925 in Haifa. Menachem traveled throughout the country, joined the Haganah at an early age and served as a commander. After graduating from high school and later in a vocational school for training in the mechanics profession, he volunteered for the British Army. During his five years in the Jewish Brigade he enriched his life experience. His youth and youth combined to be the soldier who travels to the soldier, to the sharp impressioner who keeps the whole sight of his eyes, a secret that does not lose a drop. At the beginning of the War of Independence he left his job as a mechanic, was drafted, but received a discharge and returned to Haifa. At the end of his work he went to guard extremist positions and even took part in several battles. On the 3rd of Adar 2, 5708 (March 14, 1948), while he was at the Wadi Salib outpost controlling the Tel Aviv-Haifa road, British soldiers broke into his position and led him and his two comrades, hand grenades and arms-throwers, to a nearby Arab position The order to return did not reach Menachem, who was the first to walk in. He continued to walk and was shot in the back by a British soldier, and his death shocked the entire population of Greater Haifa.