Kimmeldorf, Yaakov Mordechai

Son of Bluma and Moshe. He was a member of the HaShomer haTsa’ir youth movement and joined the HeChaluts movement in August 1907. In order to prepare himself for a working life in Israel he worked for a period of time in oil drilling in Russia He was a strong, broad-shouldered young man who had no desire to immigrate to Eretz Israel, and when he was 18 years old, he fulfilled his dream of immigrating to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. He joined the Mandatory Police for two years and on the 28th of Tishrei, (August 12, 1927), died during his service and was buried in his grave on the Mount of Olives, leaving parents, four sisters and four brothers.