Armoza, Moreno

Son of Rachel and Avraham was born on March 14, 1930, in an Arab neighborhood near Yemin Moshe in Jerusalem. He studied for two years in the “cheder” and later in the “Talmud Torah” of the Sephardim in the Old City. When he reached the age of 14, when they finished sixth grade, he left school and began working as a barber to help his family. In the evenings he continued to study at an evening school of the Hanoar Haoved movement, where he was an active member. Moreno aspired to deviate from the life of the Old Yishuv and the Old City. The space, the fields, the village charmed him. During the Second World War, he joined the Nets and served in the Tel Litvinsky camp until 1946, and on his return to the city, he joined a training group of Hanoar Haoved, which later went to Alonim and from there to the training center in Tel Yosef. In the battle for Israel’s independence he served in one of the battalions of the “Yiftach” brigade. He participated in the bombing of the Sheikh Hussein Bridge, in the help of the attacked Tirat Zvi, in the conquest of Beit Shean and in the Gilboa battles. He was buried in Tel Yosef on July 24, 1950, and was transferred to the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.