Levinger, Menachem

Son of Berta and Yosef, was born on February 14, 1111 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia. As a child, he was saved from his father, who died of an illness that occurred at the front during the First World War. Menahem studied at the school and at the university in Prague, became an attorney and took care of the family’s existence. From his youth he was a member of the Zionist pioneering youth movement in Slovakia. Served as an artillery officer in the Czech Army. In 1939, he immigrated to Israel on the illegal immigrant ship “Rudnitzer” and here joined Kibbutz Shaar Hanegev and later moved to Kfar Sold in the Galilee. In the kibbutz he worked as an electrician and as a tractor operator. In 1944 he enlisted in the Palmach and served there until the day of his death On April 29, 1948, he examined a crate of grenades that had been taken from the enemy after being deported and defeated in the battle of Mishmar Ha’emek. Tried to keep him away to prevent a great disaster, he did not have time to throw the grenade, and it blew up and killed him, and he was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Ein Ha-Shofet.