Rashkovsky, Meir (Mark)

Son of-Ginda and Michael-Moshe was born on October 28, 1926, in the city of Istanbul, Turkey, where his parents emigrated from Russia, where he studied in a French high school, where he studied French. He learned the many languages ​​spoken in the East, learned Hebrew from a private tutor, and at the age of 16 he informed his parents that he was a member of a Zionist youth association and that he had decided to immigrate to Eretz Israel. He attended the police academy in Beit Shean and was a policeman in Ra’anana and elsewhere, and dreamed of bringing his parents to Israel, but this did not happen. In the wake of the War of Independence following the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, a full mobilization was mobilized, even though the police were not required to enlist. He served in one of the battalions in the “Kiryati” Brigade and fell near the village of Tira during the “Dani” operation on 9 July 1948. He was brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.