Degani, Menachem

The only son of Shraga and Ilana. He was born on December 9, 1947, in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The parents suffered greatly during the Holocaust and their hardships after World War II were many. In 1957 the family immigrated to Israel, settled in Tiberias, while the son was educated in Ein Gev and became one of the children’s and youth’s kibbutz library. Under the influence of the boy, the parents also moved to Ein Gev and were accepted as friends. After completing his studies, Menahem studied at Beit Yerah, the high school in the Jordan Valley. He had a strong tendency for music and literature. He also liked swimming and Maad wanted to join the navy when the day came. When it was his turn to enlist, he asked his parents and the kibbutz to allow him this and insisted that they would agree to this even though he was the only child of his parents. In November 1966, Menachem was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces in which he wanted to serve, and during his service, Menahem maintained close correspondence with his parents and friends, and only after standing out in his quiet, dedicated and efficient work and proving himself a lover to anyone who knew him was he assigned to submarine service. He was sent to England when he was attached to the “Dakar” crew, but when the submarine was on its way to the port of the house and on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, the connection with it was cut off and it was not renewed again on 24.1.168. 1968. The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Menachem’s death in the course of his duties together with the rest was on January 30, 1968. Since Menahem was one of the missing members of the team, a memorial monument was placed in his memory at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and in his book “Six Days in Decker,” Eran Shorer was presented with his picture. (28.5.1999), after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.