Mannheim, Shimon-Michael (Micho)

Son of-Sarah and Chaim-Yitzhak was born on 27.12.1927 in the city of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated with his parents to Israel in 1939 on the Bulgarian ship “Rudnitzer.” The family settled in Bnei Brak. He studied in the elementary school in the city, continued to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi Amiel in Tel Aviv and at the Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and in the past two years he worked in his brother’s shoe factory in Bnei Brak and continued to study in evening classes in order to acquire a high school education. “Bnei Akiva” in Bnei Brak When he was 15 he enlisted in the religious Gadna in Gush Dan and the outbreak of the War of Independence was in full mobilization. Participated in the battles: Selma, Hiriya, Sakia, Tel Litvinsky and Kfar-Aanu. To his dismay, he was transferred to a military massacre on the home front and brought the food to the front lines on a jeep, donkey and even on foot. Because he was a religiously observant, he refused to cook on Shabbat and was tried with another member on charges of violating orders, but was acquitted of all charges. To his energetic demand, he returned to the religious combat unit in the Alexandroni Brigade and participated in the conquest of Igzim, Ein Ghazal and Kula. During Operation Horev, a “liquidation operation” was carried out against the “Faluja pocket,” in which an Egyptian brigade was besieged. The attack took place on the eastern flank of the “pocket” in the area of ​​Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Alexandroni forces broke into the village from the south and took over part of it, but their assault on the hill north of the village was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Egyptians recovered, attacked and forced our forces to withdraw. Part of the force was trapped inside the village. In this battle he fell on the 28th of Kislev 5709 (December 28, 1948), on the day he turned 21. He was buried in Faluja. On the 17th of Kislev 5710 (8.12.1949) he was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.