Mordi, Menashe

Menashe, son of Tauss and Mordechai, was born in 1950 in Iran and immigrated to Israel in 1951. In Israel he completed his studies at the Tel Hai elementary school in Kiryat Shmona and at the Neurim Institute. Menashe was a good boy, energetic and entrepreneurial. As a student he was popular with his friends and teachers. From an early age he was very attached to his family. After his father died, he helped his mother run the house. His brother, Yitzhak, fell in 1962. After Menashe left the house, he continued to maintain constant contact with the family and on every occasion he would come to Kiryat Shmona to be with his relatives. He successfully completed a series of professional courses and was considered a good and devoted soldier. After his regular service he was released and assigned to a reserve unit. In the Yom Kippur War, Menashe was a soldier in a combat engineering battalion that fought in the Golan Heights. On October 13, 1973, he was hit and killed in the shelling of the Syrians, when he and his friends were leaving a minefield near the “Rapid” junction. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Nahariya. Survived by his mother, brother and sister. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote that Menashe was an excellent soldier and a loyal friend. His commander wrote to the family that Menashe had shown courage and devotion to the mission during battle.