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Ben-Moshe, Avraham-Albert

Ben-Moshe, Avraham-Albert


Albert (Bro), born in 1946, was born in Egypt in 1946. In 1957, following the Sinai Campaign, the family moved from their home, moved to Israel and settled in Bat Yam. He was a graduate of the “Geulim” public school in Bat Yam, where he was a goldsmith, and was very talented for manual labor and amazing industrious diligence, The Ort school in Jaffa, and he completed his studies as an artist, and his brothers and sisters tell him that he was a pleasant, cheerful boy, full of laughter and pranks, everyone knew him by his wild hair, Years later, after his daughters were born, he continued to come with the toolbox in his hand and he passed between the sukkot and asked if he could help, advise and beautify. He used to come home, kiss his mother on her cheeks, change his clothes, lift all the furniture from their place and scrub the house up to the house. Which shone in the Sabbath light. He was athletic, tall and tall and had large dark eyes and a wild hair. An excellent athlete, a soccer player of the Maccabi youth team, and a swimmer who participated in competitions and in many of the Kinneret successes. Bro was proud of his parents, brothers and sisters. He was a loving son, a devoted brother and a loyal friend, who was able to organize trips and parties. Albert was drafted into the IDF in the middle of August 1964. After completing his basic training, he was assigned to an Engineering Corps, where he completed a platoon training course and served in the army until his discharge. He returned to the carpentry work and dreamed of setting up an elaborate carpentry shop where he could free his fertile imagination and create wonderful things he loved, he always loved to give, and his friends and family enjoyed his broad hand and the wonderful works he did for them. Without asking for a salary, and he married his girlfriend Sonia and set up his home And his two daughters, Batya and Sharon, were born, and he was always proud to have one daughter holding his daughter in his hand, carrying the other on his shoulder, the atmosphere in his home was unique – the understanding and love between the couple was extraordinary. During the Yom Kippur War, Bru went with an armored engineering battalion to Sinai, and in all the battles Bru was a source of encouragement and comfort for his comrades, who used to prepare them a hot drink and during a heavy bombardment he managed to dispel the tension with a good joke. “He said. Every evening he would take out his daughters’ pictures, talk to them, and assure them that here was Father coming home. On October 29, 1973, he was killed in the explosion of a mine in the bitter lake and was brought to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, leaving behind a wife and two daughters, parents, two sisters and five brothers. He was promoted to the rank of corporal.

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