Mendowski, Gideon
The only son of Gertrude-Sarah and Adolf-Abraham was born on May 2, 2525, in the city of Opelen, Germany, where he died in a road accident. In 1939, he immigrated to Israel with his parents and completed his studies at Mikvah Israel, where he joined the Jewish Settlements Police in 1943 and served first in the Haifa Bay, , Hanita and Metzuba, was a weapons instructor in the settlements of the Western Galilee and the Zevulun Valley and participated in the transfer of illegal immigrants from the Lebanese border And was transferred to Tel Aviv to the Crime Investigation Department, where he was transferred again to school in a children village and after a while to Gush Nahariya, and in April 1947 to Kfar Maccabee He graduated cum laude from Ginnegar (who was harassed by the British) and later was responsible for security in the Ramat Yohanan bloc, and was a member of the young guard of Mapai and an amateur photographer. Gideon was at the head of the helpers at the front post in the Ramat Yohanan forest and was hit in the head as he rushed to help the commander of the company, Zohar Dayan, when he threw a grenade in the counterattack of Ramat Yohanan on April 14, 1948. His body was found three days later. Moshe Carmel wrote about him and his friend: “Two commanders of a platoon who, with their heroic heroism, covered themselves with the withdrawal of their units, killed a large number of Druze and killed them.” He was buried in Kfar Ata on the 16th of Kislev 5711 (November 16, 1950) Forever in the military cemetery in Haifa.
