Chai, Moshe

Son of-Avraham and Daughter of-Sheva. He was born in 1946 in Teheran, Israel, immigrated to Israel with his family in 1950. He completed his studies in elementary school in 1950 and continued at the Ort vocational school in Kfar Sava. After his studies at ORT, he was drafted into the IDF in August 1965 and served in the navy as an electrician. Moshe’s love for the sea and everything connected to it was a good thing between his friends and his entire neighborhood. From his childhood he found this expression with his excellence in swimming, for example, fishing in the Yarkon River and even building a small raft, which was used for sailing and for the enjoyment of his friends. After his enlistment he was proud of his service in the navy. And according to his comments from time to time it seems that his most Yaffa and interesting years were his two years of service in the “Eilat” destroyer where he “really fell in love.” A month after the ship was sunk, he called it “my destroyer” He was loved by his commanders and brothers in arms, as the commander of the navy wrote about him in a letter of consolation to his father, and continued that Moshe excelled in his diligence and diligence, and did his best to help his ship, which was hit when the Egyptian missiles were fired at it by the enemy on October 21, 1967) in front of a Romanian beach in northern Sinai, and Moshe was buried in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.