Fournik, Moshe

He was born on March 12, 1929, in Russia, and his education in a Soviet school was severely disturbed by the German-Russian war, and when the siege of Leningrad was removed he moved with his mother to Kyrgyzstan. A Russian Air Force official wanted to bring him to a boarding school, but the mother refused, and after the victory over the Germans, the mother and her son went to the “escape route” and Poland and Czechoslovakia arrived in Germany. Radio technician In 1948, when he reached the end of the War of Independence, he enlisted in Gahal (Overseas Recruitment). At the same time his mother received an invitation to visit their relatives in Canada and also sent them an entry permit, but he rejected this offer and declared that his people were in trouble and that he should feel his brother’s help. In July 1948, Moshe immigrated to Eretz Israel, arrived at the Beit Lid camp, and practiced there and in Be’er Yaakov. He served in the Negev Brigade as a machine gunner and was sent to the south. Was thirsty for learning and a book lover. He spent the monthly salary he received in the army on books (the first book he purchased was the Hebrew textbook, the second was a scientific book in physics). During Operation Yoav, the unit attacked Iraq al-Manshiyya. In this battle he was seriously injured. On October 16, 1948, an explosion occurred in the vehicle that had gathered him and more wounded in order to transfer them to a hospital where he had lost his life. He was buried in the winepress. On the 29th of Tishrei 5710 (29.9.1949) he was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.