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Mandalayel, Baruch

Mandalayel, Baruch


Son of Esther and Yehezkel Efraim, was born in 1925 in the city of Lublin, Poland. He immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1935. The family settled in Jerusalem. Baruch studied at Chadarim, elementary school and Yeshivat Etz Chaim, and later began working as a laborer. At an early age, he joined the Irgun underground and carried out every mission he was assigned, with dedication and cold-heartedness, was arrested by the British Intelligence, spent several months in the Latrun detention camp and was released under house arrest conditions. When his mother was killed in the shelling, he entered the house under a shower of gunfire and took her body to burial, and on the day he rose from the seven days of mourning, he returned to his base in northern Jerusalem. (May 30, 1948) was wounded by mortal wounds, he managed to say more: “I avenged my mother’s revenge and revenge. My brothers and sisters in Poland “- and then his soul, he was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On September 3, 1950, he was transferred to the cemetery in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem.

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