Drucker, Mordechai (Motke)

Son of Avraham. He was born on October 6, 1919 in a small village in Germany. As a farmer, he saw agriculture as a natural continuation of the family’s path. In 1938, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was educated as a youth member of Kibbutz Beit Hashita. In time he and his friends went to the northern Dead Sea to establish Kibbutz Beit Ha’arava. He was a cheerful young man, simple in his manner and honest in the way of social life and problems. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Mordechai was one of the first volunteers of the Yishuv to join the British army fighting the Nazi enemy. After training, he was assigned to the Transportation Unit, the Hebrew Unit 462. On May 1, 1943, he was on a ship carrying his unit in a convoy of the British fleet from Alexandria, Egypt, to Malta, and was sunk by a German plane.In the cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped memorial was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it is a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom.