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Chaynetsky, Mordechai

Chaynetsky, Mordechai

Mordechai, son of Hanna and Aharon Chaynetsky, was born on April 18, 1942, in the city of Auschwitz-Kuyavsk, Poland. He graduated from high school and in 1937 immigrated to Israel. He began working as a laborer in the Kfar Saba orchards. Mordechai joined the Haganah immediately and fulfilled his obligation in the guard and security services during the riots that raged upon his arrival in Israel. He lived with his wife in Jerusalem, worked as a deputy at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and took part in Haganah activities. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and when the war broke out, on the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy gunfire at it. Some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and an escort vehicle were ambushed. Mordechai was among those who fell, on 4 Nisan (13.4.1948). He was brought to eternal rest in a mass grave in Sanhedria cemetery.

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