Halber, Mordechai-Nissim

Son of Sarah and Eliahu, was born in Jerusalem in the month of Kislev, December, 1927. Mordechai-Nissim attended high school and acquired a Torah education.
He was member of the Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsa’ir youth movement, the Histadrut and worked as a clerk.
With the outbreak of the War of Independence he enlisted to escort convoys. His fellow members respected him. He had a strong patriotic love and a devotion to his parents, which was expressed in his letters full of longing and appreciation. Mordechai-Nissim fell in battle for the Notre Dame monastery on 6 Iyar 5708 (15.5.1948) and was buried in Sanhedria in Jerusalem. On the fifteenth of Cheshvan 5711 (15.11.1951) he was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.