Yanai, Mordecai-Alexander

Mordechai-Alexander, son of Ilana and Eliezer, was born on August 9, 1954. He studied at the “Emunim” elementary school in Givatayim, continued his studies at the Nehalim yeshiva in the biological track, In Kiryat Arba, Mordecai-Alexander was a diligent and disciplined student, loved by his teachers and accepted by his friends, who praised him for his diligence and diligence, and was a member of the Bnei Akiva movement. He greeted each person with a warm welcome and offered a helping hand to each friend who asked him to help him, and his friends loved him for his kindness and generosity. Zen was attentive to the bad at the hard hour and always had a word of encouragement in his mouth: he was very sociable, naturally optimistic, cheerful, smiling, and humorous, far from quarrels and demons, and always seeking compromise and compromise. Mordechai-Alexander was conscripted to the IDF in early August 1972 and volunteered to serve in the paratroop brigade, and was a responsible and dedicated soldier, and did everything he was assigned with precision, to the full satisfaction of his commanders. He was an example of his friends in his good temper and obedience. In preparation for the High Holy Days, he went to Sinai to serve as a public emissary for the soldiers of the northernmost outpost in the canal strongholds – Oracle. He was supposed to return during the ten days of repentance to the yeshiva, but remained in the stronghold until Yom Kippur, in order to ease the burden of guarding the soldiers. On October 7, 1973, Mordechai-Alexander was killed in battle with the enemy during the retreat from the “Oracle” outpost. After he fell he was considered missing, and afterwards a space was declared where his burial place was unknown. His body was later identified and he was brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. Survived by his father, mother and two brothers. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. His parents commemorated the construction of the “Gevorat Mordechai” synagogue in Givatayim; Between the Cover and the Decade In 1975, at the Nehalim Yeshiva, a ceremony was held to commemorate the Yeshiva students who fell in the wars of Israel and Mordechai among them.