Menczer, Pinchas (Papik)

Son of Bluma and Simchah was born on December 12, 1919 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, to a well-known Zionist family and was a member of the Gordonia and Hehalutz movements. He joined the Artillery Corps in 1940 and served for five and a half years in the observation group on the shores of Haifa, the Dead Sea, Cyprus and the Mediterranean islands around the island of Rhodes. While in Europe he was active in the treatment and education of refugees and in bringing them to Israel. Upon his return from the army in 1945, he joined an old member of Gordonia to a group of squads, Sde Nehemia, where he worked as a farmer. After the Huliot Plastics Factory was established, he moved to work there. During the War of Independence he participated in battles in Upper Galilee, Kfar Sold, Dafna, Ramot Naftali, and accompanied by convoys. For a while he served as chief medic in the field of Nehemiah. The pages of his diary and a collection of letters he left reflect a figure of clear and profound views. He demanded of himself and his friends constant pioneering and high mental tension. Pinchas fell in battle at the Sheikh-Abd outpost near Manara. On October 22, 1948, during the second truce, an armored company of the Carmeli Brigade attacked an attempt to retake the outpost, but without success. The next day another attack took place, but this time too, without success. On this day he fell on a bullet in his forehead and was brought to rest in the cemetery in Huliot, and on the 30th day of his death, his group, Sde Nehemiah, .