Mechtinger, Israel
Son of Mordechai and Sarah. Born on 18.6.1918 in the city of Kielce, Poland, educated in a Zionist home and a national spirit, he studied there in a Hebrew school and in the Hebrew Gymnasium, and from his youth he wanted to leave Poland and continue his studies in Israel. At last he succeeded in persuading his father to travel with him to the land of his ambition, and in 1936 he arrived in Palestine, although his father returned to Poland a few days later, and he enrolled in the Montefiore Technical School, but at the outbreak of events that year he served as a police officer And he refused to accept his father’s invitation to return to Poland, and after the events he traveled to Poland hoping to influence his family members He returned to Israel in 1940. After four years of suffering and wandering, he returned to Israel, but when he began to get along he had to wear his uniform again – this time out of his dream of coming to life. Everywhere he fulfilled his duties in loyalty and reserve duty, he did a devoted job in the supply unit, and finally, when the call to the Sinai Campaign came to him, he was obeyed and then fell in battle on Monday, 6.11.1956. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left a wife and a daughter.
