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Mordechai Lasnick was born in Bialystok , Poland , in 1913. Already as a boy, he joined the
Zionist movement "Beitar". In 1931 he had graduated the Hebrew Gymnasium "Tarbut" , and in
1934 he received an immigration visa from the Techniyon in Haifa , and immigrated to Palestine.
After one year's study he moved to Jerusalem and became an officer in the Mandatory Police
Force. He served in Tel-Aviv first, then at the Lydda Airport station. All that time, he has been a member of the ETZEL resistance , and supplied vital information to its intelligence unit. On August 31st, 1938, he took an Arab bus from the Airport to the railway station in Lydda. One of the Arab passengers shot and killed him. He was burried in the "Nachlat Yitshak" cemetery in Tel-Aviv. |
| Mordechai served as a police officer in Palestine.In 1938 he asked to be transfered from Tel-Aviv to the Galilee. He took an Arab bus from Lydda, where he collected his belongings. This was on Rosh-Hashana eve, and the time of the Arab uprisings "Me'oraot". On the way, he was shot , and his body was thrown out of the bus.He was burried in the "Nachalat-Yitschak" cemetary in Tel-Aviv. |