Mandelbaum, Matityahu

Son of Rivka and Yitzhak, was born in 1906 in the city of Kielce, Poland, and attended elementary school. He worked as a shoemaker and found his way to the pioneering movement. He joined the Freiheit youth movement and was in the “Tel Hai” hachshara. On July 15, 1933, he immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh. According to the definition in the agriculture logbook, Matityahu was one of those “pioneers of the pioneering movement of her time raised from the working class to the height of builders of the kibbutz and gave them a new world of concepts.” During the War of Independence, on June 9, 1948, the kibbutz was shelled hard, one of the shells exploded in the middle of the kibbutz and the mortars hit Matityahu, who was killed at the cemetery in Ramat Hakovesh.