Shachori, Malachi

Son of Leah and Dr. Zvi, was born on May 7, 1922 in Tel Aviv and studied at the Herzliya high school. Malachi grew up in the traditional atmosphere of the Haganah because his father and his family were among its activists and joined it. In one of the demonstrations in Tel Aviv against the White Paper, he carried the national flag at the head of the demonstration, and when the British dispersed him, he was wounded in the head and legs, but did not omit the flag that had been cut in his blood. When he was 17 years old, after completing his studies in his school, he volunteered for the Nutras, in accordance with the decision of the National Institutions, and served for several years in the railway corps between Haifa and Rosh Ha’ayin and the Hatnotrim station in Zemach. When the War of Independence broke out, he volunteered – although he did not have to be drafted as a father of a child – to serve in the Hagana and served as a driver in the supply convoys to Jerusalem and the south. Upon the conquest of Jaffa, he served at night in the special company of the military police. After that he went on to be among the bodyguards of the defense minister. In the bombing of the General Staff in Ramat Gan on Wednesday, June 11, 1948, he was severely wounded and died in the arms of his father, who was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.