Guterman, Mordechai

Son of Yosef and Rachel. He was born in Romania in 1918. He completed his studies at the elementary and high school in the city and was active in the Revisionist movement, and in 1939 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa. On April 28, 1943, he sailed with some 300 soldiers of his unit and with the soldiers of other units on board the ship “Arinapura” from the port of Alexandria, the destination of which was Malta, with the aim of helping the Allies in the invasion of Sicily. In the afternoon, a group of German planes attacked a convoy of ships headed by the “Aryanpura.” The ship sustained two direct hits and Mordechai was among the casualties. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it a water pool with the names of the fallen engraved on the bottom.