Mansur, Mordechai

Mordechai, son of Hanna and Shalom-Aharon Mansur, a Yemenite immigrant, was born on December 27, 1910 in Jerusalem. During the bloody riots of 1936-1939 he joined the Haganah and during the three years of the War of Independence he held guard posts in the suburbs of Jerusalem. In 1940 he enlisted in the British Army and in 1943 was released for ill health. Unable to return to hard physical work, Mordechai worked as a guard at the university on behalf of the Haganah. He escorted the Mount Scopus convoy of scientists and medicine on 4 Nissan, April 13, 1948. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and encountered an Arab ambush. Mordechai was among the fallen. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem and left behind a wife, two sons and two daughters.