Avidan, Mordechai (Mordechai)

Son of Gavriel and Aviva. He was born on July 25, 1954 in Haifa. He studied at the Achdut Elementary School in Kiryat Motzkin, continued his studies at the Loehrensch High School in Kiryat Motzkin and at the Air Force Technical School, and he liked to enjoy life. His friends and friends, was interested in landscape and nature, and was a member of the youth movement Mahaneh Ha’olim in Haifa, where he was a sportsman and was appointed as the representative of the school for running competitions, and his friends and acquaintances were very large. He was one of the guys and although he never wanted to stand out, his presence was always felt, because he sang an atmosphere of joy in life around him, “His good personality stood out everywhere,” writes his friend Ofra, to his parents: “He was so modest that I do not remember him “Mordechai was devoted to his parents and served in the family as a model for a good and obedient child who helped his parents, never taking any aggression or chutzpah toward his father and his mother. He was drafted into the IDF in May 1972 and volunteered to serve in the Paratroopers Brigade. After completing basic training, he joined a platoon of parachutists and served in the south of the country in the Sinai and north of the Golan Heights. He did not complain and always tried to beautify things and encourage his family. His commander described him as “a wonderful soldier, disciplined, quiet and humble.” Mordechai fought in the Yom Kippur War, during which he was shocked. However, after a few days in the hospital, he returned to the front and continued to fight bravely. When he returned home for a short vacation, he did not say much about the horror stories of his friends who fell alongside him in battle, but tried to encourage and reassure his parents. After the war he was transferred to the Golan Heights, where he took part in the War of Attrition. Mordecai used every opportunity to visit the house, telephoned his parents and friends frequently, and during his vacations he used every moment for fun, meetings and conversations with his friends from childhood. As his release date approached, Mordechai asked his parents to expand their homes and renovate them. He also took an active part in planning and building: “All this,” he explained, “in order to hold a grand and glorious liberation party.” 9.11.1974) Mordechai was killed in the military cemetery in Haifa and left behind his parents and two sisters, and his family donated a library and a parochet to the Ohel Yitzchak synagogue in the Carmel region.