Tajer, Mordechai

Son of and Nazia and Haim. He was born in 1900 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His father, who was one of the dignitaries of the Jewish community, a wealthy man and a devoted Zionist, owned a leather-processing factory and planned the transfer of the family together with the factory. To this end, he sent Mordechai to Israel to examine the possibilities for the crossing. Mordechai himself, who while still in Bulgaria wanted to work in agriculture, joined the group of pioneers from Bulgaria who had lived together in the settlement of Nes Tziona, about six months before he died. As a member of Haganah, he was sent to defend the Jewish neighborhood on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border. On 23 Nissan, 1.5.1921, he died defending his brothers. He was buried in a mass grave in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv with the rest of the victims of the even. His brother Gershon fell in World War II, and his friends planted trees in his memory in the Herzl Forest