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Cohen, Moshe

Cohen, Moshe


Son of Hanna and Yehia, was born in 1919 in Jerusalem. He attended elementary school and then went to work. He joined the Histadrut Hanoar Haoved and the Haganah and in the years of the bloody riots of 1936-1939, participated as a volunteer volunteer in the defense of Kiryat Anavim. He learned drivers and worked as a driver. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he volunteered for the British Army and served in the Israel Defense Forces Company 462. With the company he wandered through Egypt and the western desert to Italy. Tobruk was sent to blow up a German weapons depot, was burned to death, and was saved from blindness. After his parents’ death, he was released in November 1944 from the army and returned to work as a civilian driver. 4.5.1948 Joined the Jerusalem Brigade, fought valiantly for the defense of Jerusalem and fell in defense of Ramat Rahel on Wednesday, July 11, 1948. He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem

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