Cohen, Moshe

Son of Shoshana and Shem Tov. Born in Tel Aviv on November 9, 1967. Moshe grew up in the Hatikva neighborhood and was educated in a religious atmosphere and began his studies at the Amiel State Religious elementary school, which ends at the Uziel Religious Middle School, In the Bilu High School he was an outstanding student with outstanding talents in the fields of sports and art, and in his youth he was a member of the Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv football association and a major player in the group. Moshe liked to draw and in the competition biblical paintings held among the students of the school won the first prize. In addition to nurturing his personal talents, he spent his free time volunteering for the community. At the end of January 1986, Moshe was drafted into regular service in the IDF and chose to serve in the Artillery Corps, similar to his older brother. During his service he was sent to the officers’ course of the artillery battery and completed successfully. He was a good commander, with leadership ability, who was able to form his subordinates for an efficient team. As a result, he was supposed to go to the officers’ course, but his exit was postponed time after time, because of his vitality to the unit. Moshe fell in the course of his duty in a training accident on 17.5.1987, on the way between Revivim and Tze’elim, in the overturning of the motorized cannon he commanded. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Holon. He left two parents, Ezra and my brother and sister, Vicki. In his memoirs, commanders and colleagues noted his friendly nature, his great willingness to help, his great concern for his soldiers, his concern for himself, and the simple joy of life with which he managed to sweep his subordinates to carry out missions. His comrades in the battalion commemorated the monument erected at the site of his downfall and in a memorial booklet they published in his memory. They hold a periodic soccer game in his memory. The family commemorated his name in a Torah library at the Otzar Ha-Chaim yeshiva in Bnei Brak