Ben-Menashe, Micah

The only son of Beda and Moshe was born on 10.2.1928 in Germany and immigrated with his parents to Israel in 1933. He completed elementary and high school and left his parents’ home as a young man. March and great restlessness accompanied him on his way. A member of the movement and the “Hagana” who is involved with people. He wandered all over the country working in the kibbutzim and the farmers of the moshavot. At the same time as he devoted himself to agriculture he took the matriculation exams and prepared for his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he did not want to enjoy the law exempting individual boys from the battle and went willingly to a combat unit. He was attached to a battalion in the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in battles as a saboteur. In the battle of Negba he was injured but continued to fight until the day of his death, 12 May 1948. His last words were: “Go on, friends, till the end!” Micha was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Negba.