Farkash, Moshe-Leib (Alexander)

Moshe-Leib, son of Yitzhak (Ignatz) and Hinda Farkash, was born in 1934 in Romania. He was a year old when he immigrated with his parents to Chili in South America. He graduated from a Jewish elementary school. From that school he drew nostalgia for the Land of Israel and began to embroider dreams of coming to the homeland. When he arrived at the age of mitzvot and a celebration held in honor of the event, his parents promised him a visit to Israel. Two years later, in 1949, the parents fulfilled their promise to their son. After a short period of adjustment, they settled in Kerem Maharal, a moshav on Mount Carmel. Moshe-Leib volunteered for the IDF in December 1951, before he reached the enlistment age. On 5 Kislev, November 12, 1953, he fell in military service and was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa.