Bankovich, Manoah (Mona)

He was born on Thursday, 2 November 1924, in Jerusalem, where he grew up in the village of Shfeya and spent another year at the Yagur training center. Manoah worked in the Potash Company in the north of the Dead Sea, where he enjoyed the work and devoted himself to it, specializing in frameworks, casting and construction. He served in the British army and made the journey from Egypt to the tip of Libya, and in his letters home he expressed his longing for the land he had for the “house” In the War of Independence, he served in one of the Givati ​​Brigade’s battalions and survived many dangers, and served in the garrison in the village of Beit Daras, which took part in his conquest on July 8, 1948, the day before the end of the truce He and his friends defended the Daras house, during an attack by Sudanese soldiers, in violation of the truce. Manoah was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Be’er Tuvia.