Yerushalmi, Mordechai

Son of Dr. Eliezer and Sarah, was born on 23.3.1933 in Kovno, Lithuania, and was raised by his parents for the sake of Hebrew language during the Soviet rule, while he continued to speak Hebrew obstinately, rebelling against a teacher who ridiculed Hebrew In the summer of 1941, he was caught in a children’s camp in Polangen, fell into the hands of the Nazis and the Fascist Lithuanians, miraculously survived, and was saved miraculously in the ghetto on the day of the Aktion. After wandering and wandering, the family members met in Vilna and then joined the “Bricha” and reached Italy, on the way to one of the camps, In Rome, he was admitted to the Académie di Sicily and continued his general studies in Italian and Hebrew, eventually entering an Italian lyceum and preparing for all his Hebrew studies, while he visited a home for handicrafts and antiques in Rome and its environs. He immigrated to Israel in February 1949 and entered the sixth grade of the “New High School” in Tel Aviv. In the seventh year he moved to the Reali School in Haifa. He continued with music and sports. But when he failed to fly, he passed a course for sergeants and then an intelligence course, but he took his life for an officers’ course, which was given to him only before he completed his studies in the army. In 1953, he began a visit to the university in the Department of Humanities and continued with music. He was very Simcha when the order to leave for an officers’ course arrived, but at the end of the course he died. This happened on Tuesday, October 30, 1954. He was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.