Nakar, Meir

Son of Massouda and Kadouri. He was born on July 26, 1926 in Jerusalem. He grew up in poverty and hardship. His father a shoemaker barely supported his family. From a young age, Meir was known as a strong and courageous boy, and even personally reacted to the murder of his fellow Arabs by a friend. At the age of thirteen, he joined the Betar youth movement and at the age of fifteen he tried to enlist in the British army and was not accepted. In 1943 he joined the British army and served for four years in Egypt, Cyprus and Greece, first as a quartermaster and then as a motorcycle operator. He joined the ranks of the Irgun underground after his discharge from the army. He worked for five months in Hatam (the Propaganda Corps) and later took part in other combat activities, including in the attack on the officers’ club at Goldschmidt House (March 1947.) On May 4, 1947, he participated with his comrades in the Acre fortification operation. Haviv and Ya’akov Weiss protested the retreat and at the end of the cover-up, the three were caught by English soldiers and taken prisoner, and did not recognize the authority of the court or their judge, and Meir declared to the judges, among other things: “British officers, : To whom do we stand? You call yourselves judges. We know that you are not judged by them but by officers of a foreign occupation army that has forcibly taken control of the homeland of another people and holds it. . . But this is not yet a complete answer. That the question is directed not to you personally but to a greater extent to your hosts, to that tyrannical rule that puts you judges on the free citizens of this land; Who is this government? A government whose officials are forced to sit in ghettos, is it a government? A government that spends about half of the budget for the needs of the police, and yet remains helpless in the face of the anger of the rebellious people – is it a government? “And ended with the words:” A regime that has gone bankrupt in all areas of life and in all attempts to seize control. It’s time you left this country. She was and we will be and we will be built as the land of freedom of peace and progress – for the glory of the world. “The three were sentenced to death, before Meir was executed, Rabbi Nissim B. Ohana came to visit him. . . Please tell my parents that they will not be sorry. . . I was with my spirit and I am not afraid. “He was brought to the gallows in the Acre prison on July 29, 1947 and was brought to rest in the Safed cemetery, leaving behind his parents, five brothers and a sister. “Remembering Forever” is a Yizkor book for heroes of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, as well as in the books “The Victory of Ali Gurdum”, “The Book of the Gallows” and “Four Steps to Death”.