Son of Leah and Yitzhak, a moshavah of the Kinneret colony, was born on October 5, 1914 in Yavne’el and was one of the first sons of the Emek Hayarden bloc. He studied at the elementary school in Kinneret and in Yavne’el and completed his studies in Tiberias. From childhood, he was familiar with mechanics, electricity and behavior. He knew how to dismantle complex instruments and assemble them again. Moshe invented the complex tools of the agriculture and the war against thieves and plant pests. Because of his virtues-generosity of Lev, physical strength, intellect, and courage-his contemporaries saw him as their leader. When he was 14 years old, he caught the Arab thief Slimka, the adults but complained about his antics and the 15-year-old held responsible positions in guarding and defense. During the 1929 riots, and even earlier, he was responsible for the weapons that remained in the moshava during the riots of 1921. Moshe worked in the parents’ farm and was responsible for arranging the local youth to guard the place. Who was in distress at the time, knew the language and manners of the Arabs, and taught them to respect Jewish strength and courage, and was a commander of the Haganah, active in the defense of Hanita and Wingate Night. He joined the “Betlem” group during her training at the Kinneret Farm and went with her to settle in Ein Gev where he served as a mukhtar and helped to maintain proper relations with the Arabs in the wild environment. Moshe contributed greatly to mechanical work and training in fishing and defense. He hesitated between two poles of attraction, kibbutz life or private farm, returned to Lake Kinneret and back to Ein Gev, and finally remained faithful to the path of the Patriarchs and settled in Lake Kinneret. When he needed a house for his wife and two sons, he set up his house and built his own farm in the Sea of Galilee, self-planned and self-employed, to the astonishment of professionals. With the foundation of the Palmach, he left his home and his family and helped his friend Yigal Allon from Kfar Tavor in the consolidation of the new Hebrew force.In the days of the threat of invasion from Syrian Syria after the defeat of France at the beginning of the Second World War he participated in fortifying the northern borders and the entry of the US forces into Syria, The German general Rommel approached Alexandria, went to the Negev to stand there in Peretz, and in the course of his contacts with the Arabs, who respected him for his wisdom and heroism and sought his advice on the matter, he acquired weapons for the Haganah over the years. A tremendous act of torching fields, courageously and respectfully stood before the commander and managed to get rid of them At the beginning of the War of Independence, when the Arabs began attacking Jewish communities, they embarked on operations in the Galilee, reprisals in the area, and damage to Arab transportation, and when the Arabs of a neighboring village, one of whom provided him with weapons and information for the Hagana, He took part in the rescue of the children from Kibbutz Gesher and in the suppression of the Arab Legion that broke out there. On the day after the declaration of the State of Israel, he joined the Palmach, which was still connected to him, but immediately came up with a “work” in defending the Jordan Valley against the Syrian invaders, and he imposed himself with all the zeal for the battles. “One time a man dies, and the homeland has to live,” he called out to the frightened.) His eyebrows Was scorched by a bullet during a patrol in the vicinity of Hanita, and in the battle of Degania B he was wounded by a shrapnel from his foreheadHe continued to command and fight. He demanded caution from others and he himself walked upright to see and act openly, and was hit by an enemy bullet and fell on the 11th of Iyar 5708 (May 20, 1948). The next day he was laid to rest in the cemetery in the Sea of Galilee. After his fall, he was promoted to captain. The farmers of the Jordan Valley published a pamphlet in his memory.
