Barzani, Moshe (Ben-Tsion)
Son of Lulu and Abraham. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq on June 14, 1926. When he was six years old, his family immigrated to Israel and grew up in Jerusalem and from an early age began helping the family’s agriculture and was forced to abandon his studies, And soon joined the ranks of the underground Herut Israel Fighters (Lehi), where his older brother Shaul also worked. In one of the days of the military siege on March 9, 1947, he was assigned the task of assassinating the commander of the British 9th Division, and he went out with a hand grenade in his hand but was surprised and caught on the ground. By a patrol of British soldiers near the “Schneller camp” and then put on trial for a military trial: “The Jewish people sees you as an enemy and foreign rule in their homeland. We, the fighters of Herut Israel, are fighting for you to liberate the homeland. In this war I fell into your captivity and you have no right to judge me. We will not frighten you in prayer, we will not succeed in destroying us. My people, and all the peoples enslaved to you, will fight your empire until it is boycotted. “The judges sentenced him to death by hanging, and after the verdict was read he rose to his feet and sang” Hatikvah. “His family and Meir Feinstein, , Tried to convince the two men to ask for a pardon, but they did not accept pleas. With the approaching date of the hanging, the two asked their comrades to hand over two hand grenades to blow themselves up together with their accomplices and accomplices. However, Rabbi Yaakov Goldman’s announcement that he had come with them the day before the gallows was raised. On April 22, 1947, before the executioner and his escorts arrived at the gallows, the two soldiers placed the grenades between their cores, hugged themselves and sang “Adon Olam” and blew themselves up, brought to eternal rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. On the stamp of the series “The Martyrs of the Revival Generation”.
