The Six Days of Yad-Mordechai

by Metrolingua.

Genres: Israel, History

269 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

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[Gary · Rating 5 out of 5]

This documentary will better help you understand the trials, settings and determination it took for the Jewish people to regain their own land. It will give you a heart for the Jewish people and a willingness to stand for Israel. Yad Mordechai , a kibbutz in the Negev desert, 10 km south of Ashkelon, was named after Mordechai Anielewicz, who died fighting the Nazis while being the commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the kibbutz was attacked by Egypt, in the Battle of Yad Mordechai.

This book tells how 110 courageous residents of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, many of them Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi Europe, and 10 Palmach fighters held off Egyptian forces for six days, with a small supply of weapons. Against them were ranged 2 infantry battalions, 1 armoured batallion , 1 artillery batallion and 2 artillery regiments.

The book also tells the background to the 1948 War of Independence and the pogroms against Jews in Palestine in the 1930s, financed by Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini with funds from Hilter, in which the predecessor of the kibbutz, the called Migdal Hamayim (Towers of the Sea) weathered attacks
The bands of Arab Liberation Army in the 1948 War of Independence were joined by German and Yugoslav Nazis and Italian Fascists who had escaped the war crimes tribunal by fleeing to the Middle East nad now stiffened the resolve of the Arab terrorists
Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi Germany on the Israeli side fighting against Nazi exiles on the Arab side and the ne-Marxists and Islamists today have the nerve to compare Israelis and Zionist to Nazis-what a sick twist of perversion.
Also gives us a n outline the idealism and unique social egalitarian workings of the kibbutzim, as the author Margaret Larkin, actually stayed for a year on this kibbutz. Larkin was a leftwing trade unionst activist and it seems strange today to realize how many leftwingers up until the 70s admired and stood by Israel, compared to today in which genocidal hate of the Israeli people and support of Arab terror against them is the cause celbre of the post modern left.
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This documentary will better help you understand the trials, settings and determination it took for the Jewish people to regain their own land. It will give you a heart for the Jewish people and a willingness to stand for Israel. Yad Mordechai , a kibbutz in the Negev desert, 10 km south of Ashkelon, was named after Mordechai Anielewicz, who died fighting the Nazis while being the commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the kibbutz was attacked by Egypt, in the Battle of Yad Mordechai.

This book tells how 110 courageous residents of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, many of them Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi Europe, and 10 Palmach fighters held off Egyptian forces for six days, with a small supply of weapons. Against them were ranged 2 infantry battalions, 1 armoured batallion , 1 artillery batallion and 2 artillery regiments.

The book also tells the background to the 1948 War of Independence and the pogroms against Jews in Palestine in the 1930s, financed by Mufti Haj Amin El Husseini with funds from Hilter, in which the predecessor of the kibbutz, the called Migdal Hamayim (Towers of the Sea) weathered attacks
The bands of Arab Liberation Army in the 1948 War of Independence were joined by German and Yugoslav Nazis and Italian Fascists who had escaped the war crimes tribunal by fleeing to the Middle East nad now stiffened the resolve of the Arab terrorists
Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi Germany on the Israeli side fighting against Nazi exiles on the Arab side and the ne-Marxists and Islamists today have the nerve to compare Israelis and Zionist to Nazis-what a sick twist of perversion.
Also gives us a n outline the idealism and unique social egalitarian workings of the kibbutzim, as the author Margaret Larkin, actually stayed for a year on this kibbutz. Larkin was a leftwing trade unionst activist and it seems strange today to realize how many leftwingers up until the 70s admired and stood by Israel, compared to today in which genocidal hate of the Israeli people and support of Arab terror against them is the cause celbre of the post modern left.

[Lorelei · Rating 5 out of 5]

More than other histories this made all that happened in the war for independence more real and more personal for me. It may be because Yad Mordechai is just down the road a piece from me, though.

[Harry · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a well written history of the battle for Kibbutz Yad Mordechai during Israel's War of Independence. A little over one hundred kibuutzniks were attacked by thousands of well armed Egyptian regulars. At times the book reads like an adventure novel. Yet the book could do with more illustrations to show where the positions of the Israeli defenders and the attacking Egyptian army were located.
I had the privilege of visiting Yad Mordechai almost two years ago. It is a beautiful Kibbutz, rich in history and located very close to the incendiary Gaza border. This book was first printed in 1965. After several major wars and the decline of the kibbutz movement, this history is badly in need of an update.

[TaniaRina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can’t wait to visit the kibbutz and museum!

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Hubby and I FINALLY visited - this past Yom HaZikaron.