Be’er, Mordechai (“Motzu”)

Son of Yaakov and Fruma. He was born in Kfar Sava on March 17, 1953. He attended the Ussishkin elementary school and graduated with the real-life track of the Berl Katznelson High School in Kfar Saba, and as a youth he joined the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed He was a very quiet, modest, introverted, and sensitive boy, and his sensitivity and delicacy were well felt in his many lyrical songs, and he was very active among his friends and served as the spirit of the group, organizing parties and games. “Shah,” “checkers,” and backgammon was very good, but he devoted most of his energy to football, even though he was a member of a youth movement, and excelled in ballroom dancing. The elementary school teacher remembers him as follows: “Mordecai did not stand out in class, was not pushed to the head of the line, did not raise his voice, but stood out in his modesty and gentleness. In his soft voice, and with the look of his clever eyes, there was a thought and depth – – – There was always a smile on his face. Mordechai was a gifted student. “As a person who was educated and educated for realization, he established a nucleus of Nachal and joined the kibbutz as a Nachalai, fulfilling the ideals that guided him: Mordechai joined the IDF in mid-November 1971 and joined the Nahal Brigade. At Kibbutz Tzora near Jerusalem. At the kibbutz he volunteered to help with immigrant absorption and once a week he went to Beit Shemesh to give immigrant children tutoring in English and mathematics. After a while he did much to help backward children (this time to the children of Beit She’an) and saw this as a primary task. He was also the first to help troubled children in Tiberias. Basic training was another excellent trait of his character. Although he was not meticulous about outside and orderly dress, he was zealous about cleaning up his arms and harness. He would sit and clean the weapon as if he were engaged in holy work. After completing basic training, he moved with the nucleus to the Kinneret group and to operational activity. He took part in many ambushes and was always ready to act properly. He did all the “dirty work,” which was connected to the exit and took care of the details as if he were the platoon commander. (13.1.1973) Mordechai fell in the line of duty and was put to rest in the military section of the cemetery in Kfar Sava. After his fall, his comrades took out a booklet in his memory.