Sheklanov, Yitzhak Mordechai

Son of Devorah and Shalom, was born on 14.6.1917 in Kolno, Poland to a well-to-do family. Yitzhak Mordechai immigrated to Israel in 1932 against the will of his father and studied at Mikvah Israel. After completing his studies he worked for a time as a tractor operator and later as a laborer at the potash company in Sodom. During the Second World War, he volunteered to join the British army and serve as a tank soldier, but as an Israeli he was not allowed to serve in this service. Then he joined the Palmach in 1941. Afterward, he went to work in the arms industry of the Haganah and devoted himself tirelessly to it, and he was one of “a hundred crazy people to talk about, and a day will come and this weapon will determine our fate” “Once he told his friends that they had taken care of his life and fate:” There is no time to get married and raise a family. “When he laid the water pipe in the Negev, he worked as one of the supervisors on the line and even took part in the repelling of a gang that sabotaged the pipeline and then moved to Tel Aviv as an inspector for the Ta’as (the underground weapons industry of the” During the War of Independence, on May 10, 1948, he died in an airplane accident that took off to try new explosives to bomb the enemy in a battle that was abandoned on the road to Jerusalem. The plane crashed on its passengers near Abu Ghosh. After his fall, he was promoted to captain. On September 19, 1948, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim.