Topol, Mordechai

Mordechai was born on March 15, 1929 in the city of Ostrowitz, Poland, where he arrived in Israel in March 1936 with his parents who settled in Tel Aviv, where he was a member of the Hagana. He earned his living in the distribution of the daily Ma’ariv, but his dream was to become a geological engineer to discover oil sources in the Negev, where he studied for a year and returned to Israel at the beginning of the War of Independence in order to serve as a pilot. The source of the family’s livelihood was selling his newspapers at noon every day, and then enough to arrive on the plane, where he served as a plantant for besieged settlements and dropped them ammunition and food. The battles Castel – Jerusalem. Mordecai fell on Friday Iyar 15.5.1948), protection of the airport in Tel Aviv was bombed on the same day. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.