Ben Miriam and Mohammed. Musa Muhammad Hassan was born on June 8, 1944, in the village of Umm al-Fahm, in the Agbaria al-Kina neighborhood. He grew up in a religious family with three brothers and a sister. Their lives were quiet and simple, the family says, the father is in the mosque all day, and the mother does all her household needs: washing, cleaning and cooking. The house was a room and a bathroom, surrounded by a garden with all kinds of trees: plum, pear, apple, lemon, mandarin, orange and pomegranate. In front of the house there was a very large plum tree that made shade all the time. Musa would sit under a tree and play with the kids in the domino neighborhood or playing stone games. Musa went to school in the village and studied for eight years. After completing his studies, he worked for two years in the bakery and then met Jamal, the owner of a lonely restaurant (Gamliel restaurant in the Yemenite vineyard), which employed him and raised him as a son. On June 8, 1968, Musa married Lutfi, whom he met at a wedding in the neighborhood when she was seventeen and then fell in love with her. They had six children: Adel in 1970, Afifa in 1972, Adnan in 1973, Afat in 1974, Afaf in 1976 and in 1978 Imran, who was Musa’s right hand in the kitchen. Musa joined the police in 1972. He worked at Beit Horon, and on Saturday worked as a soccer guard in Umm al-Fahm. He devoted all his time to others. For example, someone who had a medical examination – he took it, someone who needed the drug – would bring it, and even from Jerusalem. He had a large, warm heart, and although he had various problems he had very good relations with the whole world. No one hated him or said anything bad about him. Musa, they all agree, loved all the people regardless of whether small or large, poor or rich, Jewish or Arab, Muslim or Druze. In 1990, Adel, Musa’s son, was burned during his work and was hospitalized for months. Musa was deeply distressed and he had a heart attack. In 1991 he received another seizure when his father fell silent. Musa took the father home and served him until his death (May 27, 1994). That same year Musa’s daughter, Aafia, was drowned in the Dead Sea after swallowing a lot of water and being in serious condition. On October 6, 1994, Musa went to the HMO to do blood tests, and on his way from there to work he went to the house to drink tea. Shortly afterwards, while on the bus, Musa felt bad and asked the driver to take him to Hadassah Hospital. While he was in the hospital, he had another seizure and died. Advanced Sergeant Musa was fifty years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the Umm al-Fahm cemetery.
