Glickberg, Mendel

Son of Chaya-Rachel and Dov. Born in 1909 in Olika, Poland, he was educated on the shoulders of observant parents and studied at the Tarbut School, which planted a fondness and yearning for Eretz Yisrael, and left his family at the age of 17, despite his parents’ requests to remain in his city. In 1933 he immigrated to Palestine, where he worked in various jobs and fate struck him again: In a work accident at the Haifa power plant, he fell from a height And after a long treatment, he returned to physical work despite the shock that his right hand had caught him On May 18, 1938, he was among the passengers of a freight car laden with provisions, which made its way from a mansion on Mount Carmel to the Carmel Forest and was attacked by an Arab gang. Were killed in the attack, Mendel was buried in the Haifa cemetery and his mother was immortalized in the Haifa Book and in a book in memory of the fallen of the Carmel Forests.