Chudanovsky, Mendel

Was born in 1898 in the city of Kherson, the Kiev region, Russia. In 1920, he left Russia and arrived with a group of pioneers in an uninterrupted way, after a year’s hardships and shakes, in 1921 to his destination – the Land of Israel. Mendel settled in Haifa, married a wife and raised three daughters. In Haifa he was a butcher, a profession his family kept for generations. He was a veteran of Tel Amal and a member of the Haganah. During the bloody riots of 1936-1939, on July 31, 1938, he was mortally wounded by a bomb thrown by an Arab rioter into a bus. Mendel was taken to the hospital and the next day, on the 4th of Av, 1.8.1938, died of his wounds and was brought to eternal rest in the Haifa cemetery. He left a wife and three daughters.