Ben-Itzhak, Mordechai

Mordechai (Moti), son of Esther and Yosef, was born on March 26, 1954 in Be’er Tuvia and attended the Mevo’ot Elementary School and the Be’er Tuvia High School. Moti was a diligent and diligent student, excelled in the literary profession and used to write poems about subjects that occupied him. According to his educator, he had a mature world view and sensitivity to subjects and figures, who was able to analyze them in a special way. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement and later also taught youth. Moti loved the guidance and the yeshiva together, and his friends say that behind the embarrassed smile that he always encouraged his friends and apprentices, there was firmness, a willingness to fight for his opinions and a belief in his power and ability to make and change. Moti was a kind boy; He was always willing to help anyone who turned to him and did the other’s with a smile and a wish. His kindness was also evident in his love of animals; He loved the cows and the calves in his parents’ farm, and his affection for them was also expressed in the songs he wrote. “Moti is also a student, a teacher and a farmer who says admiringly: I love to work,” says Moti. “In the year before he enlisted in the IDF he studied at the Beit Rotenberg Institute for Youth Counselors. He was accepted there after insisting on his right to run, despite his youth, and managed to convince the director of the institute. Mordechai was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in early August 1972 and volunteered to serve in an elite unit of the Israel Navy, where he completed his first military training course. I am able to collect all of them – and a great joy of success in the first missions. “One of the soldiers was commended for his determined willpower, but at the end of the training he was hit in the leg and sent to the hospital. In the Yom Kippur War, Moti served on the Suez Canal, on the 7th of Tishrei 5740 (7.10.1973), was captured by the Egyptians at a “caress” post on the banks of the Suez Canal He did not return alive from captivity, and his coffin was brought to Israel on October 31, 1974. He was brought to rest in the cemetery in Be’er Tuvia, From a nurse – Turns brother – her father. After falling promoted to the rank of sergeant. Letter of condolence to a bereaved family friend of the family wrote: “When someone is taken from us forever – we tend to remember the goodness and beauty that were in it, highlighting how the threat is death. It is only the thought of what purpose Motti has fallen that gives the strength to continue. Farm, land, trees – everything that is rooted and ours and everything that is a state – these Moti left to his family and they will give us the strength to continue without him. “His parents and friends in Beer Tuvia published a booklet in his memory containing poems and friends’ Tuvia published articles and articles about him and his character, from the period of school until his enlistment in the IDF.