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Laufer, Mordecai (Marcel)

Laufer, Mordecai (Marcel)


Son of Beila and Avraham, was born on October 14, 1908 in the city of Radautz, Romania. In his youth he was educated in the Ha – Shomer ha – Tsa’ir youth movement in Bukovina. Before coming to Israel, he served for two years in the Romanian army and completed an officers’ course. When he arrived in Israel, he joined the “Hashomer Hatzair” group in Magdiel, but was forced to leave the nucleus to help his parents. He settled in Ramat Gan and worked as a foreman at the Argaman factory. He was active in the working public and was a member of Hapoel and Haganah. In the early days of 1936 he was the commander and commander of the Dan region, and in early 1947 he was caught searching for weapons by the British police when he tried to transfer weapons in an open pickup truck. After seven years of imprisonment, Mordechai was imprisoned in the Jerusalem prison and was active among the prisoners and made sure that their situation improved and that cultural activity developed among them, with the outbreak of the War of Independence and the worsening of the situation of Jewish prisoners in Jerusalem. As they were in the custody of an Arab guard, in letters he wrote during his imprisonment He was later moved to the Atlit detention camp and as soon as the British departure from Palestine was organized, he was transferred to the detention camp at Atlit. Hagana “escape from Atlit Mordechai was the first to leave, arriving at the road and waiting for the armored vehicle to be collected, and a battle between the Hebrew convoy and an Arab gang broke out near Atlit. 1948). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak. He left behind a wife and two sons

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