Locker, Mordechai (Mark)

Was born on November 16, 1924 in Lvov, Poland. He immigrated to Israel in 1933. He studied at the Reali School in Haifa and graduated with honors from the Shalva Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in 1942. At the age of 17, he left his parents’ home to enlist in the British Army, in violation of their consent. In order to testify that he is 18 years old and is permitted to enlist on his own, and when he was not accepted into the British Army, he embarked on a year of service in the Palmach in Degania Aleph. After completing his year of service he went on to study medicine at the American University of Beirut, where he was among the best. On his return he served as a teacher in Sharon. From the beginning of the War of Independence, he served in the Palmach in the vicinity of Jerusalem, as a soldier in the “Furutzim” battalion of the Harel Brigade, and served as a battalion medic, in accordance with his professional training. The cruelty to the conquest of Katamon, where he died on April 30, 1948. He was among the burglars to the San Simon monastery in Katamon, causing heavy casualties to the burglars and the wounded, but they stood up to the enemy’s counterattack and Mordecai extended his help to the injured under From the fire to his last moments on the day of the 22nd of Nissan 5708 (1.5.1948) was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavi .