Geber, Moshe

Son of Menucha and Avraham Dov, was born on the 29th of Tishrei, 5721 (29.9.1920) in New York. He completed a government high school and continued his studies at college. He was an active member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement and for three years worked in agricultural training. In 1943 he joined the Habonim movement and worked in the Hehalutz branch in New York and Poalei Zion. During the Second World War, he served in the US Army, with the rank of sergeant, in guarding the northern shores of the United States and spent about two years around Alaska. In the winter of 1946-1947, he took a special course on behalf of the Haganah to organize a secret intelligence network and took advantage of the first opportunity to immigrate to the Haganah, in order to make available to the Haganah the information he acquired. On July 24, 1947 he arrived in Haifa on the ship “Marine Karp”. He had an entry visa to Greece and so he secretly went ashore. He intended to be a member of Kibbutz Kfar Blum, where immigrants, members of the Habonim movement, were concentrated, but for family reasons he moved to Jerusalem and worked there in the Jewish Agency Youth Department. He wrote articles and translated from Hebrew into English material for the English newspaper of this department. During the winter of 1948 he was active in guard duty in Jerusalem. At the beginning of operations in Katamon, he joined units operating in the south of the city. Moshe fell on the 17th of Iyar 5708 (17.5.1948) from a sniper’s bullet that hit him while he was on a tour of the train station in Jerusalem and was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On the 10th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was laid to rest In the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.