Erel (Engel), Moshe

Son of Yehuda (Leon) and Hela. Born in Breslau, Poland, on September 21, 1947, with his parents, Holocaust survivors of Polish Jewry, he arrived in Israel in 1950. After graduating from elementary school, he was accepted for his physical abilities and high intelligence, He was devoted to his parents and his family, and after completing his studies he was drafted into the Navy in September 1965, and was chosen to serve in the underwater navy of Israel. In June 1966 he was ordained as a diver. His dream of youth had come true. But the cruel sea demanded his blood sacrifice, and Moshe, who was sent to England to bring Deker to the shores of the country, did not have time to do so. He was cheerful by nature, a “man” without competition, and his laughter was all over. He was one of the mainstays of all the parties and events in the naval commando unit in his improvisations and imitations, as the commander of the navy noted in a letter of condolences to his parents after his descent into abyss. The sea, as noted, swallowed the submarine, which Moses brought to the shore of the port of the house, when it was on the sea route between Gibraltar and Haifa, and the connection that was suddenly cut off was not renewed again; This was on the 24th of Tevet 5728 (25.1.1968). The Chief Military Rabbinate decided that the date of Moshe’s passing, in the course of his duties with the rest, was on January 30, 1968. Since Moshe was one of the missing team members, he was placed with a memorial monument in a monument to the Dakar people in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. A monument was also erected in his memory in the Ramat Hasharon cemetery. In presenting his picture in Eran Shorer’s book “Six Days in Decker” his name was immortalized. In the booklet issued by the Council of Ramat Hasharon in memory of the sons who fell in the war, his memory was raised. On the 28th of June 1999, after years of searching, the INS Dakar submarine was found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, at a depth of 2,900 meters on its planned sailing route and 250 miles from the port of Haifa. A space whose burial place is unknown.