Fisher, Michael (“Micha”)

Son of Paul and Mila. He was born at the age of six and a half to Kibbutz Maoz Haim, where he spent his childhood and youth, and attended elementary school and graduated from the kibbutz high school. He was an excellent athlete, excelled in swimming and won first place in regional swimming competitions, and was a member of the HaPoel Association and when he was in high school, he was active in the Gadna. He had an evening voice and he sang a lot for his pleasure. Micha joined the IDF in mid-November 1959, and although he was the only son who insisted on his right to join a combat unit, he tried to join the ranks of the naval commando unit because he saw it as a natural duty of a fellow like him. He went through the entire course of progress-basic training, a squad commander’s course, an officers’ course, and a parachuting course. Then he returned to the Brigade – this time as a commander. He spent most of his compulsory service in the Northern Command area. After his discharge he returned to the kibbutz and worked in fish farming. After he married a wife and his eldest son was born, the family left the kibbutz and moved to the town of Beit Shean. In the town his wife worked as a teacher while he was cultural coordinator in the local education department. For a while he was from Beit Shean, and in 1968 the family moved to Kiryat Motzkin and Micha was hired by Brink, the director of the Haifa branch, and the CEO of Brinks wrote about it after he fell: “From our very first meeting I saw him as a human being He was a man of principles, knowledgeable of what he had before him in the short and long term, in the course of the stages, from the easy to the heavy, especially the understanding of his people and the qualities of normal and decent human relations. “He did his reserve duty in a region he knew so well from his childhood – the Beit She’an area – where he also fell. On Sunday, June 5, 1970, Lieutenant Michael was killed by a terrorist force and brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa, leaving a wife and three sons in a condolence letter to the family: “The incident took place during a morning patrol, When a fire opened fire on the patrol, which he commanded. Despite the intense fire and the near range, Micha proved exemplary leadership and personal example during the fighting, while trying to get his men out of ambush and fight back. – During his stay in the unit he was an example of his subordinates and battalion officers in his dedication and readiness to carry out the tasks assigned to him. Was a father and a commander to his men – he knew how to bestow his lofty qualities on his men and glued them to the same spirit and noble qualities. “A memorial was erected in the fallen place in the Beit She’an Valley.