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Nakar, Mordechai (Na’im)

Nakar, Mordechai (Na’im)

Son of Aziza and Shaul, was born in 1922 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In the Diaspora he had a high school education. He immigrated to Israel in 1941. Upon immigrating to Israel, he worked as a tailor to support his elderly parents, who remained abroad because they were their only support, and joined the Haganah in 1947. With the outbreak of hostilities following the UN General Assembly resolution, After the publication of the enlistment order for the children of 1922, he joined the Beit Horon Brigade in the Jerusalem Brigade, took part in the battles of the Old City, and performed his duties with loyalty and discipline: one day a soldier from the Arab Legion surprised himself, disarmed him, : “He should not be killed because he surrendered and handed over his weapon.” In the Old City he was wounded in the hand, During the retreat he was seriously injured, remained on the battlefield and died there on August 17, 1948. He was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On the 30th of Elul 5710 (August 30, 1950) he was transferred to rest – The military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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