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Rothschild, Meir Menachem

Rothschild, Meir Menachem


Son of Ya’akov and Hadassah. He was born in Petah Tikva on July 29, 1946. When he reached school age, he began his elementary studies at Moriah in Tel Aviv and then moved to Yeshiva in Tel Aviv and completed his elementary studies at Beit- He studied at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Nativ Meir in Beit-Gan and in the 12th grade he submitted to the Ministry of Education annual work in the history of Israel on the subject of “partition” (as an expression of the attitude of Diaspora Jewry) To the elementary settlement in Palestine between 1810 and 1860). He had studied less than one term in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Jewish history and general history. Meir-Menachem charmed his knowledge with its wide variety and scope of interest: Jewish studies, thought and philosophy, knowledge of the Land of Israel and its history. He was one of the best counselors and educators of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. As a well-known religious Jew, he was not afraid of confronting the problems of time. In January 1965 he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and completed his regular service on the eve of Passover 1967. On the eve of the Six-Day War, he was impressed by the strength of his much older friends. For his part, and especially if he is a family member, and indeed this decision was implemented without any order to rescue his friend, who was seriously wounded on the Allenby Bridge, and on the Allenby Bridge on the 24th of Tevet, (25.1.1968), who was very impressed to read about the act of Daniel Verdon, a man of Givat Brenner, who went out to rescue a friend knowing that this might cost him his life See this story with his sister: “You can not understand this – to see a wounded friend in front of you on the ground and not to feel his help.” He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. , Prof. Y. Rivlin, Prof. H. son of-Sasson of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. D. Koliv of Bar-Ilan University. His name was mentioned in the book “Paratroopers from Sinai to Golan”. His history and description of his last offering are presented in the book “Nizkor” published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Student Union, edited by Yehuda Ha-Ezrahi. An article about him was published in the weekly “Face to Face”.

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