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Rechev, Menachem

Rechev, Menachem

Was born on November 3, 1925 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and arrived in Israel with his parents in 1935. Menachem grew up in Haifa, quickly acquiring the language and adapting to his new surroundings, and soon demanded that his parents change their Hebrew name (Reiter) for a Hebrew name. After finishing high school, he worked as a storekeeper at Ford. From 1940 he was a member of the Hagana and fulfilled every order and task assigned to him. After the outbreak of the War of Independence, he enlisted in the Carmeli Brigade and completed a training course for men, and Menachem took his squad for sabotage operations and participated in the occupation of Ein Ghazal Twelve hours before the concentrated attack on the occupation of Haifa, to conquer the house of the “Najada” in Wadi Rushmiya in Haifa, where he fell on April 22, 1948, together with his childhood friend Menahem Frostman, from whom he did not separate from his childhood. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. He left a wife, Malka.

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