Feldman, Mordechai (Motel, Motke)
Son of Bilha and Yehuda, was born on May 5, 2626 in Sarny, Poland. At the beginning of the Second World War, as a child, his great wanderings began. In 1941 he fled with his brothers and sisters to Russia and spent four years in Ural. Where he completed a vocational school and worked for two years as an assistant driver. He loved his profession, but at the first opportunity to leave Russia he moved to Germany for a training kibbutz. After a period of work, he immigrated with members of the kibbutz to Israel on the illegal immigrant ship “Latrun”. The ship was caught by the British and its immigrants were deported to a camp in Cyprus. When he returned from Cyprus, he lived in Kiryat Haim and worked as a locksmith. In December 1947 he enlisted in the Carmeli Brigade. He completed a paramedics course and participated in the explosion of bridges and escort convoys to the Western Galilee. Elem was quiet and confident, jovial and joking, and gave a sense of security and strength in the hearts of his comrades. His talent for painting was discovered in a camp in Cyprus and since then he has been a painter. His last painting was “Yehiam Fortress,” which, when he fell into it, fell. On the afternoon of March 27, 1948, a convoy of seven vehicles and 90 people left Nahariya to deliver supplies, fortifications and reinforcements to Yiham. Near Kabri, the convoy encountered an Arab ambush. The first armored vehicle managed to break into Yehiam, but the rest of the vehicles were ambushed. The convoy members fought until the evening and under cover of darkness some of them managed to escape, but half of them fell in battle and Mordechai among them. He was laid to rest in a grave in the military cemetery in Nahariya.
