Schneider, Max
Son of Clara and Shlomo, was born on June 19, 1913, in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. Max graduated from high school and joined the Halutzi youth movement. He immigrated to Israel in 1933 and was accepted as a member of Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha. After marrying Miriam Rapaport, he left the kibbutz and moved to Jerusalem. Since his arrival in Israel he has been active in the Haganah. He took part in various courses and completed the first course in the Juara in the mountains of Efrayim, where Max set out to instruct at isolated points (in Gush Etzion, Neve Yaakov, etc.) and organized the guard duty there, a role he devoted himself day and night to. He was a man of books, loved classical music and literature, modest and quiet, did not speak much, and Max did not demand from his men in the Haganah what he did not exist himself. Was a member of the pioneering movement and a talented “Haganah” commander, whose aim was to live a life of peace and creativity, but the events of the time brought him to the life of a soldier and he fulfilled his duties with honor. The outbreak of the War of Independence Following the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to partition the country into two states, on Saturday evening, 7 December 1947, at 8:30 pm, while carrying out his duties near Talpiot in Jerusalem after a tour of the area where he was responsible for He was buried in military honor on the Mount of Olives, and was the last to be buried there, and his name was engraved on a monument erected in the military cemetery Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of fighters who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were brought for burial on the Mount of Olives.
