Bodnya Mendel (born 1937, Daugavpils) – Prisoner of Zion.

Mendel Bodnya lived in Riga. Repeatedly petitioned for permission to emigrate to Israel. He was arrested on 15 June 1970. His mother had emigrated to Israel long before his arrest.

In December 1970, he was tried in the First Leningrad “aeroplane” trial, and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a high-security corrective labour camp (ITL).

Literature: Anti-Jewish Trials in the Soviet Union (1969–1971) / ed. and commentary by A. Rozhansky. Jerusalem, 1979. Vol. 2.