Feldman, Mordechai

Son of Yaakov. He was born on February 22, 1913, to an affluent family in the town of Lizenski in Galicia. He studied chemistry and philosophy at the University of Lvov and intended to continue his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but this not happen. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, worked in Nahalal and other places in Israel, and later joined Kibbutz Yagur. Upon his arrival at the kibbutz, he began to work in the “Limestone” quarry and at the outbreak of the 1936 riots he volunteered to the police but was failed the eye exam. When the recruitment began for special policemen (the Notrim), he again asked to be drafted and this time he was accepted and stationed in Jeddah – Ramat Yishai on the Haifa-Nazareth road, which was then an isolated settlement. On the 26th of Tishrei, 5747 (October 12, 1936), he was wounded in Jiddah by an Arab ambush and died on the spot. He was buried in the cemetery in Yagur. A few days after his death, a baby born in Yagur was named after him. His memory was mentioned in a diary published by Kibbutz Yagur on the occasion of “Thirty” for the fallen, in the book “The 1936 Riots” by Bracha Habas and in “Yagur Book”.