Cohen, Menachem (Naftali)

Son of Bluma and Jacob, was born on January 7, 1924. He studied at the Mizrachi School and in Yeshivah in Kfar Sava and was an active instructor in the Bnei Akiva youth movement. “Y. When they refused to join him in the underground because of his youth, he brought with him a rifle, a sign that he had grown up and deserved to be counted among its ranks. In Kfar Sava he worked as an agricultural laborer and helped his parents. After the escape of Lehi members who were imprisoned in Latrun, Menahem was forced to leave the moshavah and move to work in a printing press of the Lehi underground. He was transferred to Tel Aviv as a youth counselor, worked in Jerusalem, and at the end of 1946 he was sent to the Lehi branch in Haifa, where he was called Naftali and affectionately named Thulik. , Was able to cross the barbed wire fence and a minefield, but was caught far from the camp.According to the outbreak of the Acre prison and the capture of some of the burglars and escapees, he was among those who were exiled to Kenya, And lay for weeks on his sickbed in the detention camp, and when he returned to Israel he joined the army He was disqualified for active duty, but again stationed himself in a different place and surrounded the doctors, and was thus accepted into a commando company in Brigade 8. On October 27, 1948, Menahem fell on the outskirts of Beit Guvrin. When they took him in the half-track, the vehicle was hit with a shell and caught fire. Menachem was taken from him, but until he was brought to the first aid station he lost much blood and died. He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery.