Well, Mordechai

Mordechai, son of Bracha and Menahem, was born in Aden, Yemen, in April 1943, and in 1949 immigrated to Israel with his family as part of the “On Wings of Eagles.” The family settled in Ganei Tikva,Mordechai was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of August 1961 and was appointed as a mechanical engineer in a navy unit, and completed his naval weapons course and naval course, and his commanders admired him as a quiet, diligent and diligent man who fulfilled his duties faithfully to the satisfaction of his superiors. In the war he was drafted into the Armored Corps and served there during all his reserve service periods, and after the war he began to work in the “Sharnu’a” factory and quickly moved up the ladder of roles, and in 1969 he married his beloved girlfriend , And the two moved to Bnei Brak after his eldest son, Yishai, Mordecai, or Motke, as he was called, began to study Torah, joined the Torah and Chaim yeshiva where he studied and taught, and began to observe the mitzvot with the belief that the Jewish nation was founded in its theory and laws. He was a good son to his parents and a devoted husband to his wife, and he always helped her with household chores, and his children had a loving father who spent many hours working with him. As much as he could. He instituted a traditional order in his extended family and observed the holidays and festivals, and he firmly believed that the Jewish people would return to his religion and God. During the Yom Kippur War he fought in an armored brigade in the battles of containment and break-ins against the Egyptians on the southern front. He fought bitter battles with his unit, but made sure to get up early every morning, put on tefillin and pray. On the 25th of Tishrei 5734 (October 25, 1973), when his unit fought in the western side of the canal, Mordecai went out to rescue the wounded and killed from the battlefield, and the enemy’s fire hit him, and he was brought to eternal rest in the Mount Herzl cemetery. , Left behind a wife, a son and a daughter, parents, six brothers and three sisters, and was raised to the rank of sergeant