Grossman, Mordechai (Mocha)
Son of Margalit and Yehuda was born on February 10, 1927, in the city of Debrecen, Hungary, where he was a member of a Zionist youth movement in 1935. He immigrated to Israel in 1935 and lived with his family in Jerusalem, where he graduated from school He was an active member of the Haganah in 1941. During the war, he was kidnapped by the Irgun Tsvai Leumi and was liberated by the Haganah, and after graduating from high school, At the Technion in Haifa, with the outbreak of the War of Independence following the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country. He took part in various combat activities in the vicinity of Haifa, and for a while was commander of a lower-level platoon in Haifa, and at the same time, to the extent possible, continued his studies at the Technion. Mordecai believed that in Jerusalem, which he knew better, he would be more useful. He also wanted to fight with his friends since then and at his request was transferred to Jerusalem. He was sent to Atarot and there for a while served as commander of the base. He was injured in his hand and sent to a hospital in Jerusalem, but when he heard that the company, where he was a deputy commander, was about to go into combat, he hurried back to Atarot to participate in the battle with his friends. He left with a force that ambushed the enemy traffic on the Jerusalem-Ramallah road. In the retreat to Atarot, the force was surrounded by an Arab mob and a battle that developed, on the 23rd of Adar I 5708 (March 4, 1948). He was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. After his fall, he was promoted to lieutenant. On the 5th of Elul 5711 (6.9.1951), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
