Nimtza-Bi (Nippowitzky), Mordechai-Motke (Max)

Son of Zahava was born on June 22, 1903, in the city of Pinsk, White Russia. Grew up and was educated in a Zionist atmosphere and attended a Russian gymnasium. During the First World War he arrived with his parents in the stream of refugees to the city of Kazan on the Volga. Where he continued his high school studies and after the February 1917 revolution was one of the leaders and organizers of the students. He took part in the founding of the Zionist youth organization “Haver HaTzair”. He moved to a “friend” in accordance with his age. He left with a group of friends and founded the Kadima organization, which had a Zionist-Poalei Zion orientation, but did not join the Hechalutz In law. Mordechai was a secretary and a member of the Central Committee of the United Zionist Youth Movement, which was established in the early days and was forced to go underground because of the ban imposed by the Communist regime on Zionist activity. He studied law in Odessa and in the universities of Kazan, Moscow and Leningrad and was ordained as a lawyer. In Odessa he was arrested for his “sin” of Zionism and his sentence to Siberia was replaced by permanent deportation from Russia, and he arrived in Israel in 1925. He worked in the “South” group in the construction of Nes Ziona-Rehovot and Pardes Nes Ziona. He served as a lawyer in Haifa, where he organized a volunteer firefighter service and Magen David Adom, and was elected to the head of the “Firefighting Center” in Israel Mordechai was active in the security services from 1929 onward and during the bloody riots of 1936- He was the organizer and commander of the special police force in Haifa, and at the beginning of the Second World War he founded and managed the Haganah services in Haifa and was sent by the Jewish Agency, with the support of the British military authorities, This service in England. He was the head of 30,000 Jewish volunteers in the Civil Defense Service, Magen David Adom and Fire Brigade, conducted courses and published articles and 50 pamphlets on these issues. From the air, the Va’ad Leumi delegated to him the management of the operation and instruction for naturalization and the Hebrew name, and in these matters he published articles and pamphlets, and as an example he changed his name. In this capacity he was a member of the General Staff, and published in the press and in the press a well-founded proposal concerning the symbol and the flag Towards the end of the war, he was about to finish his term as Acting Head of the IDF and move to another position. Mordechai was killed on 7 January 1949 when a car crashed near Rehovot and was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.