Jacob, Mordechai (Yanko, Marco)

Was born in 1930 in the village of Foyne, in the region of Moldavia, Romania, when he was still a child, his parents and children were dispersed among relatives in various places.In 1946, at the age of sixteen, , First living in the kibbutz and then moving to Tel Talpiot, which had served as a transit camp for new immigrants in Jerusalem. During the War of Independence, he enlisted and was assigned to the Alexandroni Brigade in Battalion 33. Before Operation Horev, the brigade was taken down to the south and organized around the “Faluja pocket”. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation operation” was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. Forces “Alexander” burst into the village from the south and took over the part, but the assault was repulsed mound north of the village. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle, on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948) with 92 other fighters who were buried in a mass grave in Faluja. About a year later he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.