Mordechai (Moti), son of Esther and Aharon, was born on March 4, 1941, in Malia, Spain, where his family immigrated to Israel in 1947, but because he was sick, Moti was forced to stay in France, which was the intermediate station on their way to France. He remained in Israel for four years and immigrated to Israel with his adoptive family in 1951. His first year in Israel was spent together with his family, who lived in the Hadera transit camp, and a year later the family moved to Pardes Hannah, where he began his studies at the Yeshurun religious elementary school. In 1955 he joined the youth group at Kibbutz Ein Harod where he also graduated from elementary school and high school .Motti came to Israel to his large family, which included other brothers and sisters besides him, He began his absorption process in the new country, with its foreign customs and hard language, and within a year he managed to acclimatize and entered the burden of regular studies. Where he was immediately absorbed and became one of the group, and soon after he arrived there was nothing to distinguish him from the other members of the “Sabras.” Mordechai was drafted into the IDF in mid-October 1958 and volunteered for the Nahal as a member of the group. After his discharge from the military service, he joined the Alumot farm, but in 1961 the agriculture disintegrated and Moti returned to his parents’ home in Pardes Hannah. For two years he worked as a mechanic at the local Ytong factory, but after marrying his girlfriend Miriam, and after their eldest daughter, Etti, was born, he decided to leave this job, which gave him no satisfaction and prevented him from advancing. In his search for a new place to build his home he encountered the name Arad, and the idea of the city that was established in the wilderness captured his Lev. Miriam and Moti successfully passed the admission tests and were accepted as “friends” in the new city, which was in its early stages of construction. At first he found a job as a driver at Solel Boneh, led by the company’s workers on the Be’er Sheva-Arad line. After his son David was born, Moti Oved began as a taxi driver. A year later the Six-Day War broke out and Motti came to the service, though he was not called. He arrived on his own in the camp of his unit and served there as a vehicle sergeant throughout the war. The great awakening of the people after the war also took hold of him. After a period of active service in the Sinai, he returned to his family, which suffered greatly from his absence as a result of his duties, and in 1968 he was assigned to a reserve unit in the Armored Corps, Arad moved to Arad and Sinai, and in 1970 he began working as an ambulance driver in Arad, where he underwent professional training at Tel Hashomer and saw great blessings in his new job. Active and imaginative, and spent much of his leisure time on a hobby of copper foil In the Yom Kippur War, Moti participated in the difficult battles in the Sinai, and was awarded a commendation by the chief of staff for his actions during the Yom Kippur War: He served as a paramedic of an armored personnel carrier unit that stormed a missile hill in the Maror area on October 22, 1973. After our force was established, Mordecai ran to bring ammunition to our soldiers, despite the artillery fire and the fire of the NKL, which was killed on the spot, and in this act Mordecai displayed courage, initiative and a spirit of volunteerism. ” He was brought to eternal rest in the Pardes Hanna cemetery. He left behind a wife, a daughter and a son, parents, sisters, and an ambushWith brothers. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal.
