Not really a mnemonic, but here’s one way to think about it. The avos are in the order in the first line of the first bracha of the Shemonei Esrei – -Elokei Avraham, Elokei Yitzhak, Elokei Yaakov. Yaakov fights with an angel and then is renamed Israel, or he who fights with God. Yaakov/Israel is synonymous with the Jewish people because his children were each the head of one of the 12 tribes (except for his son Yosef, whose two children each were head of their own tribe.) Does that help at all! Hatzlacha!
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