Goldstein, Mordechai
Mordechai, was born in 1906 in Polaby, Poland, and acquired a high school education. In 1922 he immigrated to Israel together with his father. He joined a group of revolutionaries and served as Secretary of Communist Youth. Because of this activity, he was expelled from the country in 1926 by the Mandatory government. In Belgium, he continued his political career until 1929, the year he returned to Israel. During the 1929 riots he refused to sign the proclamation of the Palestinian Communist Party, which called upon its members to support the “Arab liberation fighters” and called for a political inquiry. In 1931 he returned to Poland and served in the Polish army, in the cavalry, was a good shot and was promoted. But it was precisely within this framework of a hostile environment that he found the way to Zionism. In 1937 he returned to Israel. On this day, a disaster occurred: his father, who went to meet him at the port, was killed in a road accident. He joined the Hagana and was appointed commander of the area. On January 15, 1948, he was wounded in a position in the Herzaliya neighborhood of Haifa while he was performing his duties, and died on the following day, 5, Shvat, January 16, 1948. He left a wife and a daughter, and was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.
