Terashi, Mordechai
Son of-Avraham and Jolte. Born on April 26, 1947 in Amra, Iraq, the family immigrated to Israel in 1951. When he reached school age, he studied at Sha’ar Hanegev Elementary School and completed his studies there. He loved it from an early age and disappeared from his home and spent time on the beach until nightfall: At the age of eleven, the boy became serious and loved to build different buildings on his own; He did the gate of his garden with his own hands. After graduating from Sha’ar Hanegev, he studied mechanical engineering for three years at the School of Fisheries and Shipping at Mevo’ot Yam and completed his studies there. From an early age, he belonged to the Gadna, and had special tendencies for hunting and underwater fishing, preferring trips and trips both organized and random, according to the time he had at his disposal, and he studied diligently and energetically. He learned the art of hunting on land and in the town of Sderot in the western Negev, where he was able to spend hours in his wide green avenues, where he met every wadi and cave and knew the smell of the fig and the sabra. He was ordained as a snorkel in June 1966. His surroundings in civilian life, which was natural landscape and hunting, did not interfere with his adaptation to the mechanical landscape of the submarine, in which he gradually proved himself to be an excellent, dedicated and responsible professional who always aspired to progress. Mordechai managed to serve in the “Crocodile” before moving to “Leviathan” and after the Six Day War returned to Israel in “Leviathan” excited by the excitement that he did not get home to participate. Three months later he was sent to serve in the Dakar. Mordecai was not Simcha to go out to cold England and preferred the warmth of the warm and warm country and his letters to his family and friends revealed everything that was happening in his Lev and his homesickness. But the day came for him to return home – and when the submarine “Dakar” was on the way to the port of the house, on the sea route between Gibraltar and Israel, the connection was suddenly cut off and never renewed; This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Military Rabbinate determined that the date of Mordecai’s death, in the course of his duties together with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Mordechai was one of the missing members of the team. He was placed with a memorial monument in the memorial to the people of Dakar in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.
