Mordechai, son of Malka and Shmuel, was born on 21.4.1945 in Kibbutz Givat Brenner, where he completed twelve years of elementary school and high school. He was an outstanding student and especially excelled at learning English, and was a great student of sports, especially in basketball and swimming, and he received many awards in this field. A cheerful, sociable man who was always willing to help others, he liked his classmates. Thanks to his qualities he became fond of his classmates as well as the older members of the economy. His love and dedication were great to his family, and after his death, his father wrote in his eulogy: “A loving and loved son … Your love was without limits.” At the end of the twelfth year, on the eve of his matriculation exams, he broke his leg during a sports competition For a period of three months. Nevertheless, his spirit was not broken, and in the hospital, he studied and his books, and he took the exams with all his classmates and met them successfully. Mordechai was drafted into the IDF in mid-November 1963. Although he was afraid that he would be prevented from volunteering for combat because of his injured leg, he rejected a proposal to study at the Air Force Technical School and finally volunteered for the Nahal Brigade. In the Nahal Brigade, he overcame all the difficulties and obstacles with his leg situation and took part in a course for squad commanders, a parachuting course, a course for infantry officers and a course for infantry officers. Motke was an excellent officer, honest and uniform in his unit. He was strict with his men, but at the same time served as an example of his sincere and sympathetic attitude. He had excellent leadership skills and was respected by all his men. He excelled in a great deal of professional knowledge and efficiently and loyally fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him. After completing his compulsory service in the IDF, he accepted the request of the Kibbutz Movement’s security department and enlisted for a year of permanent service as commander of the Nahal settlement in Ketziot. Motke was very successful in his position and his period of command over the holding is remembered for the same cycle as “the golden age in nuclear life.” He was a friend to all, and in his pleasant manner, he had a good spirit around him. At the beginning of May 1967, Motke was released from the IDF and was called to reserve duty in the Six Day War, where he fought in Nablus and the Gaza Strip and was saved miraculously when a grenade was thrown into his car and did not explode. At that time, Motke was also active in the Economic Studies Committee, and he always found time for all his activities, and he was the first to travel abroad with a couple of friends and his girlfriend, Sarah, Returning from the trip. This trip made a strong impression on him, especially his impressions of the North. All of this was expressed in his special ability and sense of humor, through many spectacular photographs he took. After returning to the kibbutz, he was admitted to mechanical engineering studies at the Ruppin Midrasha. Although he was often called for periods of the reserve, and despite his many visits to his family on the kibbutz, he studied diligently and successfully passed the exams until the Yom Kippur War and interrupted his studies. When the war broke out Motke was among the first soldiers to arrive in the battalion and among the first to arrive at the front in Sinai. From the rear base they were sent to Rumania, and when they arrived there on the second day of the war, on October 7, 1973, they were ordered to continue to Beluzah, where they drove with the tanks in the head and the half- The company of the armored infantry unit that Mutka was its commander, was sent back to fight and paralyze the ambush. A blaze of fire hit them and Mutke’s half-track was hit by anti-tank fire. When he jumped from him to move to another half-track, he was hit and fell, brought to the eternal rest to the cemetery in Givat Brenner, and left behind a wife and two sons, a father and a sister. , Who bitterly mourns each of her loved ones who fell in battle. Mordechai was one of the heroes who paid with their lives for our defense and whose name will be engraved in the chronicles of our people, In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander, Lt. Col. Assaf Yaguri, wrote: “Motke was an exemplary armor man, a courageous fighter who led his men heroically during the campaign. He became fond of his men and commanders, and his fall was a heavy loss to our unit. “His parents and friends published a pamphlet in his memory of members of his kibbutz.
