Albert Mandler

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Avraham Albert Mandler (Hebrew: אברהם מנדלר; 3 May 1929 – 13 October 1973) was an Israeli major general. His journey to the then British Mandate of Palestine started from having been expelled at age 10 from his school in Linz, Austria, before fleeing with his mother through multiple borders until reaching Romania and boarding the last illegal boat the British allowed to anchor in Haifa. At age 16, he joined the Haganah, at 19 he fought outside Jerusalem, and in subsequent wars he climbed the ranks until, as a Major-General, he fought in Sinai until his death in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In the 1967 Six-Day War, he was a colonel commanding the 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. This brigade pushed "elements of the Shazli Force and the Egyptian 6th Division straight into an ambush laid by Arik Sharon" at Nakhl on June 8, 1967. During the Yom Kippur War, Major-General Mandler was commander of the IDF's armored forces in the Sinai. He was killed in action on 13 October 1973 when an Egyptian missile...

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