Mordechai (Max) Hecker was a land developer, a Zionist engineer, a Polish Jew and one of the founders of the Technion. He was born in 1877 to a Jewish family in Hamburg, studied civil engineering and joined the Zionist student movement, where he met Frieda, who later became his wife. Upon completing his studies, he enlisted in the Austrian army. Together with his brother, Wilhelm Hecker, he founded the “Development of Eretz Israel” company which tried to raise Jewish capital for investments in Israel’s nascent industry. In 1913 he immigrated to Israel with his family, arrived in Haifa and was appointed director of the Technion’s construction work. With the outbreak of the First World War, Hecker, who was a reserve officer in the Austrian army, was drafted, and the whole family went with him to Europe. At the end of the war, they returned to Israel and the cold returned to the Technion. Hecker was a lecturer in theoretical engineering at the Technion and he is also the man who prepared the Jewish plan for the division of Jerusalem that was submitted to the Peel Commission, which published its conclusions on July 7, 1937.