Arieh, Mordechai

Son of Malka and Rabbi Zechariah. Mordechai was born on February 27, 1950, in Rosh Ha’Ayin, “his birth in holiness abroad and his birth in holiness in the Holy Land,” in the words of his parents. Mordechai studied at the Yesodei Torah school in Rosh Ha’ayin. Afterward, he studied in Yeshivas in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, and after completing his studies he joined the IDF. After the army Mordechai married a wife. He lived in Pardes Hannah and had three daughters and two sons: Marganit, Aryeh, Lavie, Levia and Gur Aryeh. Mordecai enlisted in the police, and fulfilled all his duties in the best possible way. Mordechai honored his parents. Who kept Torah and mitzvot, was careful to observe Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Simcha and Simcha. Besides being modest and honest, Mordecai had a surprising and amusing humor and was an artist in the flute. His thinking was sharp and clear, and all the crosswords of logic would bring about a solution. “On his way to unite us with love,” the family says, “he loved the Sabbath songs and the diwan songs despite his hoarse voice, and he always respected David and his brother, his beloved son and father, and always dreamed that the day would come. He expected a lot, did not hope for more, was content with “just.” At the beginning of September 1986, Mordechai went to work. On the way from his residence in Pardes Hannah to Hadera, while he was riding on the police scooter, he was hit by a tractor and dragged away from the road.After a week in the hospital, he died on 9/9/1986. First Sergeant Mordechai was thirty-six years old when he died. He was buried in the Rosh Ha’ayin cemetery. He left a wife and five children, parents, a brother and four sisters. The mother says she is not consoled, she suffered from kidney disease and suffered from severe anguish in dialysis until she passed away, and all this longing for her beloved son Mordecai … He did not even have the privilege of inaugurating the house that was built and taken away in his lifetime, That we do not embarrass him. “