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Ben-David, Dr. Moshe

Ben-David, Dr. Moshe

Dr. Moshe, son of Roza nee Hollanski and David son of-David, was born on November 24, 1898, in the city of Lodz, Poland. At the age of about five, he moved with his parents to Konigsberg, Germany, where he completed high school, and then the Faculty of Medicine. In 1923 he immigrated to Israel. At first he worked as a laborer and was briefly a home doctor at the Hadassah Hospital in Tel Aviv. As a member of the Hagana, he was sworn in as a guard during the Mandate. On April 13, 1948, he boarded a convoy to Mount Scopus. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of 13.4.1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy gunfire at it. Some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and an escort vehicle were ambushed. Moshe perished along with the other scientific workers, doctors and nurses. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem.

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