Albert (Yitzhar), Moshe (Moshele)

Son of Tzippora and Shimon, was born on April 24, 1921 in Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of three, in 1924, his parents immigrated to Israel and settled in Nahalal. Where he attended school and continued his studies at the Yagur Regional School. He paid for the use of agricultural machinery and building carpentry and frames. Moshe participated in the editing of the “Yagurim” newspaper of the school and was one of the persons responsible in the various branches of labor. He conceived the idea of ​​the independent factory of the school graduates and participated in Aliyah to Dafna. When he completed his studies at the Yagur school, he was sent to the National Teachers’ Seminar for Hanoar Haoved and went to teach in Safed, in an environment that opposed pioneering education, but managed to acquire the hearts of his students and their parents. During the day he worked in construction work on Mount Canaan and at night worked on behalf of his movement. After a year he returned to Nahalal and began serving as a guard in the Nahalal area. He was one of the first volunteers to serve in the Palmach at the beginning of his career, was a teacher in courses and a platoon commander, and was chosen to be one of the first employees of the Voice of Haganah, the radio station of the Resistance Movement, He worked in a metalwork shop, but despite his need for a farm he went to the Negev, where he was a candidate for an overseas emissary from the Haganah to train youth in the use of weapons, but preferred to go to the Negev. With his guidance, and with his warm and Lev attitude to each sheep, he studied his knowledge, and with his guidance he made every effort to ease his subordinates. In his letters, he wrote: “I have the desire to live always in the tension of yearning, which he raises and distorts.” “The bold steps toward the abyss kept us from the danger of falling into the abyss – Moshe served in the Negev Brigade, was stationed in Beit Eshel and served as a company commander who defended the isolated points in the Negev On May 11, 1948, during a fatal bombardment on the part of Arab Be’er Sheva, – The water in Bet Eshel with the transmitter – was wounded by a shell and buried in Bet Eshel. He left a wife. His daughter was born about a month and a half after his death. A year later he was put to rest at the cemetery in Ein Harod. His memory was mentioned in the book “Sons” of the Ein Harod farm, and in the book “Asher Shachlanu” of Moshav Nahalal.