Aizikovitch, Yaakov-Moshe

Born in 1922 in the city of Spinka, Romania, and completed his studies at the elementary school in his city, and when he was sixteen, he immigrated with his brother to Eretz Israel on the Zakaria. Who was released, joined the Betar company that was in Rosh Pina. He was a guard and in 1946 joined the “Wedgewood” and went with his men to settle in Mishmar Hayarden. After the failure of their attack in the Jordan Valley, the Syrians moved their efforts to the Mishmar Hayarden area. On June 6, 1948, they carried out a first attack on the settlement, but were repulsed. Four days after the first truce came into effect, the Syrians again attacked Mishmar Hayarden and this time they succeeded in conquering it. Among those killed in the battle on Tuesday, June 10, 1948, was Yaakov-Moshe, who was buried by a father and a brother, who were killed in the battle of Mishmar HaYarden in a mass grave in Rosh Pina. In 2012, a strenuous investigation by the Unit for Locating Missing Persons in the IDF, in cooperation with the Unit for the Commemoration of the Soldier in the Ministry of Defense, revealed that two of them had been buried in the mass grave in Rosh Pina without their names being mentioned so far. Military presence in Nahalat Yitzhak. The unknown space was transferred to the mass grave in Rosh Pina and on Wednesday, 16.01.2013, three tombstones with their names were placed in the mass grave and a ceremony was held to reveal a monument with the families.