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Duchiminer, Mordechai

Duchiminer, Mordechai


Son of Sarah and Meir, was born in 1923 in Poland and was one of the survivors who arrived in Palestine after endless hardships and agony. There are no details about his origins, his civilian life, and his work. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he served in the army and joined the Alexandroni Brigade in December 1947. He had strong opinions and an aggressive character, knew how to overcome every difficulty and risked the war risk, and only the last time he went out to combat, “This time it will be difficult.” With the worsening of the situation in Jerusalem due to the disconnection of the road to it by the Latrun Legion, it was decided to break through to the city, and the battalion was assigned to reinforce it in this operation – Operation son of-Nun, whose company was assigned to capture Latrun, but near their departure encountered better enemy forces and conducted a difficult retreat. Pale, on May 25, 1948. While he volunteered to connect two separate wards, he led a small mortar to the second detachment, which was hit on the way and died on the 17 th of November 1949, To rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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