Nedivi, Mordechai (“Motke”)

Son of Elimelech and Nechama. He was born on November 23, 1924, in son of Shemen. His father was one of the Haganah’s designers in the struggle against the British and one of the first generals in the IDF After Mordecai’s birth, the family moved to the Geva group and grew up in a kibbutz in Tel Aviv, In Tel Aviv, during the Second World War, he was drafted into the army, and during intensive activity he reached the rank of platoon commander. After graduating from high school, he began studying at the Hebrew University in Haifa and was recruited for training and training positions. In 1946, after the end of World War II, he was sent to Germany on behalf of the Hagana in order to engage in illegal immigration in the framework of Aliyah Bet. He stayed in Germany for about two years, but for this period he is not to speak. There is no doubt that the remains of the people who remained in the Nazi extermination camps, which he saw and needed to rehabilitate and become fighters, left a strong impression on him. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, Mordechai returned to Israel, was recruited as one of the first infantry soldiers and became commander of a company in the Givati ​​Brigade. At the end of the war, he was released from the army and tried to hold on to civilian life, but after a short period he was called back to the career army, and in March 1951 he married a wife. He was not a rigid officer with militaristic views. Education, character design, walking in pleasant ways were his ways in the army and these jobs were sent. He dealt with the absorption of new immigrants in the army, and despite his many difficulties in absorption, he was very successful in his job. In 1955 he served in the Training Department of the General Staff. In October 1958, he graduated from the Command and Staff School and later became Operations Officer in the Jerusalem Brigade and Battalion Commander of the Brigade, and after completing his position in Jerusalem, he moved to the officers’ school with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was very pleasant, modest and very human, and in military-professional matters he did not ignore the human aspects. , The kind of officers who make the hard life of the military more pleasant, and in May 1970 was granted Mordekhai was appointed commander of the Dan district, and on the 20th of Nissan 5731 (20.4.1971) he fell while carrying out his task while taking a mine during an early patrol to locate areas for training, and left a wife and four children. The Military Cemetery in Kiriat Sha’ul A new house was built in Afeka for his father, Major General Avner, in which a room in memory of his son Motke will be dedicated.