Segal, Michael (Mark)

Was born on February 25, 1912 in the city of Przemysl, Galicia, Poland, to a poor Hassidic family, where he studied at Chadarim and a Polish primary school and helped his parents in their small shop, And found his way to the Hashomer Hatza’ir branch, and his parents objected vigorously to this path, but he was able to stand firm, and in a difficult struggle for his existence and private tutoring he completed a commercial school and was able to continue his studies, And after he studied the carpentry work for a while he set out to organize a training company in the town of Drohobycz, and he was the first to succeed. After a short period of time, he became an assistant and a guide to the friends who followed him, who responded with understanding to his meticulous demands to devote himself to all the hard work, because he did so himself, and in his behavior convinced them that the kind- When he immigrated to Israel in March 1936, he was assigned a bakery in the company’s camp in Gan Shmuel, where the company moved to Netanya and set up a bakery there. He was assigned to work and manage it at night, far from the company’s camp. To participate in the evenings in the ideological discussions and crystallizations of the division God. When his group came to settle in Yad Mordechai, Michael was forced to stay for a long time among the bakery workers in Netanya, which served as an important source of income for the kibbutz in its early years. During his stay in Netanya he was an active member of the Labor Bureau of the city. When he finally moved to the kibbutz, many tasks were assigned to him, and he filled them with dedication and skill, one by one: a work arrangement, kibbutz secretariat, concentration of the agriculture and the concentration of the Education Committee and the Culture Committee. Finally, when the newspaper Al Hamishmar was founded, Marek was called to be one of his first employees. In the kibbutz he married a wife and over the years they had a son and a daughter. He continued to be devoted to every role and was an adult brother to new friends who found psychological comfort. During the War of Independence he participated in the defense of the place, first against the Arab gangs and then against the regular Egyptian army. Was killed by a shell in his position on the 11th of Iyar 5708 (May 20, 1948). He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Yad Mordechai.