Schnitzer, Mordechai
Son of Hannah and Yosef, was born on March 5, 1929 in the city of Bochum, Germany. In February 1935 the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Afula. Mordechai received a national-religious education in the elementary and high school of “Ha-Mizrachi” in Afula. He was a member of the “Bnei Akiva” movement and a member of the “Hagana” movement in 1942. In June 1947, when he graduated, he left his home and separated from his brother and sister, who loved them and went on to serve as a police officer in the nearby Jewish settlement of Tirat Zvi. In difficult conditions and at constant risk, he participated in the preservation of the Beit She’an valley – Jezreel Valley. During the War of Independence he was immediately drafted into active military service, served in the Golani Brigade, participated in the heroic battles of Tirat Zvi against the Iraqis and in the battles of the Gilboa, Jenin and surrounding villages. He was a generous man who believed in a deep faith in a higher power that guided man in his path. He dreams of the life of the man of the land who sits on the borders of the land and watches for them, alive and sustaining himself. With the religious company in his battalion he moved north, to the Upper Galilee. After the battles of Kadesh Naftali and Malkiah returned to his parents’ house and he is seriously ill. As soon as he was cured, he moved to Nazareth. From there he went with his brigade to the Negev and fell a week later during Operation Assaf on December 7, 1948, when the Sheik-Nuran launcher was shelled near Urim, and when the convoy arrived, he cleared his excavation for one of the convoy’s drivers And was hit by an Egyptian shell when he dug a new shelter and was buried on the borders On the day of the end of the battles in the vicinity, he was transferred to the military cemetery in Haifa. To one of its members’ groups in his name.
