Lederman, Michael (Mickey)

Michael, son of Yaffa and Yitzhak, was born on March 3, 1944 in Givatayim, where he studied at the Borochov Elementary School and later continued at the ORT Technicom High School in Givatayim. , As he was fondly called his family and friends, was born as a frail, small but thin child, but handsome, with a unique personal charm, and few could resist him, everyone loved him and no one could refuse his request. Special attention was given to all members of the household, and from a very young age his talents and special approach to machines and various types of mechanical accessories were discovered. He changed his books in two different libraries, the public library in Givatayim and the Solel Boneh library, and as a boy he liked to travel and try to visit all the corners of the Land of Israel, and he was quiet and did not talk much about himself. Behind the scenes, in the “nest” of the movement in which she was a friend, it sometimes felt as if an invisible hand was arranging all the things … Mickey would come with the first to organize the party and be the last to clean up and restore order to its former state. His power and personality and naturally chose him to hold key positions in the company’s committees. Michael was drafted into the IDF in mid-October 1962, and after basic training he was sent to a parachuting course he could not finish because of an injury With his foot. He did not particularly like military life and was not enthusiastic about military activity, but nevertheless he fulfilled all his duties with the same precision and responsibility as he was accustomed to in civilian life. After he was discharged from regular service, Mickey joined his friends at Kibbutz Tzora, where he married his girlfriend Gilo. Eventually they had two sons – Raz and Eran. When she finished her studies, Mickey went to study at the University of Be’er Sheva in the mechanical engineering program sponsored by the Technion, and was certified as a mechanical engineer. They all expected for a moment that he too would finish his studies and that the family could live together peacefully. But fate wanted otherwise. As soon as he finished his studies and returned to the wasp, Mickey went to reserve duty (a service that was postponed due to the final exams), and he never returned. During the Yom Kippur War, Miki participated in the brutal containment battles that took place in our positions along the Suez Canal. When the fighting broke out, Mickey was at the “Oracle A” post, and together with a handful of other fighters tried to defend the outpost. On the 7th of Tishrei 5734 (7.10.1973), during the retreat from the post, when the half-track from which Mickey fought, at the seventeenth kilometer of the canal, the convoy boarded an ambush And Mickey and other comrades were killed, and the few who remained were taken prisoner, and at first Mickey was declared a missing person and then as a space whose burial place is unknown. The military commander in Kiryat Shaul, left behind a wife and two sons, parents and brother, and was promoted to the rank of corporal in a letter of condolence to the bereaved family. A. We found in him qualities of a man and a model warrior. “His parents and members of his kibbutz published a booklet in his memory, including letters and friends’ comments on his character.