Feinberg, Emanuel (Mandela)

Emanuel, son of Leah and Shlomo-Shmuel Feinberg, was born on September 21, 1927 in Jerusalem. He was a youth movement counselor and at an early age joined the Hagana. Emanuel worked in several places in the city, and for a year at the Dead Sea Works. At the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the defense army, and went on guard duty at Neveh Shaanan, where he trained at Motza and completed his training with honors. He went to participate in the conquest of Katamon, then completed an artillery and silversmith course in the framework of the Moriah Battalion for the operation in Sheik Jarrah. On May 21, 1948, he was sent as a member of the reinforcements to Sheikh Jarrah, drove in an armored car and was hit in the head by a shell and blinded. He underwent surgery and died five hours later. Emanuel was buried at Sheikh Badr A. On 10/09/1950, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.