Ben Hannah and Aryeh. Was born on January 21, 1953 in Beit Dagan, the second son of Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Romania, a younger brother to Esther. Mordechai spent his first years in Beit Dagan, and when he was in fifth grade his family moved to Rishon Le-Zion, where he studied at the Be’eri elementary school. At the age of sixteen, Motti joined a boarding school at the Kaduri agricultural school, after being influenced by the stories of the establishment of the state and the heroes of the period who were educated in Kadouri, such as Yitzhak Rabin. He and his friends, together with other young people from other places, joined the Nahal Brigade in Kibbutz Malkiya, on the northern border, and joined the IDF in late 1972 and went to the Nahal Brigade course. Toward the end of the war, the Yom Kippur War broke out and Motti and his comrades were stationed at the “Budapest” outpost on the banks of the Canal and protected it. It was the only outpost that did not fall. Moti was a counselor at the Infantry Commanders ‘School, and later went on to an officers’ course. In his first position as an officer, he served as a platoon commander in the Nahal Brigade, where he met his future wife, Nechama, who served as a NCO officer in the same battalion. The two married, while he served as a company commander in a training base and a company commander in the Negev. Moti served in Tze’elim as an infantry officer and during this period moved with his family to live in the center of Tzochar in the Negev. From there he moved to Ma’ale Efrayim, where he served as battalion commander in the Gadi camp in Baka, and in 1986 he completed his studies at the Command and Staff Command and at Tel Aviv University in the Department of General History. Over the years his first two sons, Ben and Tal, were born. Moti went to the North, where he served as part of the 91st brigade during the period of the brigade’s stay in Lebanon, and when the brigade left Lebanon, as part of the evacuation of the IDF from Lebanon to the security zone, “He said. After this position, he served as an Operations Officer in Division 91, and from there he was appointed commander of Camp 80 and received the rank of Colonel. During this period his third son, Dor, was born. At the end of his tenure as commander of Camp 80, Moti was appointed commander of the Khan Yunis brigade and the camps, and this was the period of the most violent intifada, after the murder of the seven Palestinians in Rishon Letzion. Mordechai completed his Masters degree in Political Science and Relations at the end of his term in the National Security College. University of Haifa. In the next position he served as the deputy commander of the 91st division, and at the end of it, for a short time, was an operations officer for the IDF exercise. After this position he was appointed military attache in both Scandinavia and Latvia. Moti attended an apprenticeship course and prepared for the job with his family, and for a trip to Copenhagen, a trip that was not realized. On June 13, 1995, two weeks before his departure and the start of the job he expected (among other things, to be in the bosom of his family), Moti Madom Lev died and was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Holon. He was forty-two years old when he fell. When he left, he left behind a wife, three sons, a mother and a sister. In a letter of consolation to the family, Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak wrote: “Mordecai served as an officer in the Operations Branch and was to travel abroad as an IDF attache in Scandinavia, and was described by his commanders as a serious and responsible officer who performed his work thoroughly and professionally. He has a high level of motivation in all his positions and is considered a warrior and a commander of a householdMo and above. Mordecai was admired and accepted by his commanders and soldiers alike. “His family wrote:” Moti was never, in all that he did, mediocre. He was known as a professional, courageous, as a soldier in briefings, and was meticulous in his safety and instructions. He always saw the protection of his soldiers’ lives and the prevention of accidents. Moti was known as a military chaplain, trained and commanded, a man with vision and ideas, a man who was nicknamed the bulldozer during his military service. A man whose commanders relied on him with his eyes closed, taking responsibility for running the command center during events that were part of his military service in the north and Gaza Strip. “Moti was a commander whose soldiers, both regular and reserve soldiers, were sure to follow him in wartime with great security. Motti was an officer and a balanced man who always did his best and yet behaved in a fair manner to the civilian population that was in his area of responsibility and command. “Moti was rough on the outside and very sensitive from the inside, and nothing went unnoticed in nature, while he was always on the lookout for his work. , The landscapes and sights that reawakened him every time, and he had to share this with his army and family associates. “It was important for him to give his children love and knowledge of the country, in addition to humane values, for he was a humanist and a true democrat in his soul. Moti was involved in politics, passively, of course, but he was caring and involved. “Moti was a devoted son of his parents, who taught him the love of the country, humanism, integrity and involvement, and was proud of him for being a man, a commander and a family man as he was. Nature. ‘His plans for the future were in the direction of the media, the press, the law and politics, and there is no doubt that if his life’s poetry had not been cut off, there would have been many more.
