Barshavitzky, Moshe

Son of Golda and Avraham Shraga was born in Jerusalem in 1897. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus after the British promised the road was open and safe, and the convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs, , An ambulance and an armored escort were ambushed, and for many hours the convoy members fought and tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles. In the city and on Mount Scopus, as well as armored vehicles, they were unable to assist the convoy, and British army forces intervened and did nothing to help, despite the requests. Only late in the evening did the British intervene and rescue the survivors from the trapped vehicles. Moshe was brought to eternal rest in a mass grave in the Sanhedria cemetery in Jerusalem. He left a wife and five children.