Franco, Mordechai

Son of Dina and Raphael was born in Hadrian, Turkey, and acquired a high school education in 1948. In 1944 he immigrated to Israel and spent two years in a youth group in Kvutzat Kinneret and was very active and devoted to the company and filled various positions there. 1947 Joined with his group to the Palmach. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he served in the Palmach and accompanied convoys to the Galilee, from Haifa to Dan, and proved his ability to train and fight. Mordechai grabbed the bag and quickly returned to the platoon and smiled: “The enemy is leaving only a bullet.” Mordechai was sent to the departmental paramedics course in Netanya, and was joined by the “Porsim” battalion. Was among the conquerors of Katamon, in the first battle for ambush, for attack and defense His commandment to remain in the position when his friends went into battle almost burst into tears, and his ambition was to win and live in the period after the battles, a time when he wrote to his parents: “When the world is astonished, how have we overcome our tenuous forces? Mordechai was a member of the Palmach force that broke through the Zion Gate and created a corridor that allowed for a connection to the Old City. In this battle, on May 18, 1948, a memorial monument was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and in December 2006, in the framework of an investigation of the missing persons’ Not as seven as they had known until then. In the course of the investigation, it became clear that the tomb of the late Mordechai Franco was the grave of the late Mordechai Franco On April 29, 2007, a military ceremony was held in which Mordechai’s family, friends and IDF commanders were present.