Ben Gloria and Yitzhak. He was born on the 13th of Iyar 5733 (13.5.1973) in Ashdod, the fourth son after three daughters. Moshe was a good boy, quiet and friendly. He began attending the “Yehalam” elementary school and continued at the “Shahar” high school and the “Neve Herzog” High School, near Ashdod. During this period he played table tennis at Beit Lazarus, and participated in several competitions. When he reached the age of mitzvot, Moshe began to observe the commandments seriously, which is not characteristic of his contemporaries. When he moved to ninth grade, he was looking for a high-level yeshiva high school, and he chose the Or Etzion Yeshiva near Ashkelon. After a year he moved to the Amit high school in Rehovot, in the electronics department, a cheerful and playful boy, full of joy and youthfulness, and he did not “invest” in his studies, but continued to observe the mitzvot. He joined the Bnei Akiva youth movement, first as an apprentice and later as a mentor, and made contact with his students, who became their mentor and friend, and continued to consult with him when they needed good help. And again they went on his trips around the country, with Moshe’s love of the land, love of Torah and love of man and his many activities Becomes apparent that there according to these values. He walked the length and breadth of the country, which reach every river and every site has a first aid course and volunteered at MDA Ashdod. When the Gulf War broke out and the sirens sounded, he volunteered to help bring the elderly into the sealed room in the old-age home in Ashdod. At the end of his studies, Moshe sought to enrich his Torah education and prepare himself for a significant enlistment in the IDF and chose to study at the Eli yeshiva in Samaria, a yeshiva that combines religious studies with physical training. The people, speak their language, connect to them and then influence and radiate. We have to leave the hothouses, from all the closed settlements, and then when we come into contact with the secular people, we can explain our worldview. “His ambition and dream were to become an officer in the Paratroopers Brigade. He completed his basic training course, continued his advanced training, took a parachuting course and was chosen to take a paramedics course. Because of the lack of medics, Moshe was not sent to an officer’s course. He did not give up his great ambition, and when he was offered a basic officers’ course he agreed, believing that this would bring him closer to his goal. As a cadet, one of his commanders wrote about him: “A highly valued cadet who does not compromise on a small as a great one.” Moshe completed his officer’s course with honors and received a proposal to serve as a liaison officer in Lebanon, and he asked his rabbis to consult with them whether the service in Lebanon in this unit was sufficiently combatable or that he should receive a field position, Was dedicated to his position and due to his ability and seriousness he also performed tasks that were not within his jurisdiction. “I do not know how I would have managed without faith … I do not know what ideal holds my friends here, I am simply fed by faith, from the thought of the people of Israel, the Land of Israel and the Torah of Israel,” he wrote to his sister. “He said. During his brief vacations from Lebanon, Moshe took advantage of every available moment to return to yeshiva to study Torah or to embark on another journey around the country. In his last years Moshe invested in learning and expanding his knowledge in a variety of fields. During his military service he bought books to enrich his world – travel books, maps and paths and holy books. On May 30, 1996, Moses fell in Lebanon. On the same day, the headquarters received a message of soldiers who encountered themIn the charger. Moshe, who was in the convoy leaving Lebanon on his way home, insisted on going out with the aid forces and helping as a medic. A side charge was achieved when he was on his way to help others. He was twenty-three years old when he fell. Lieutenant Colonel Yoram Dahan and Staff Sergeant Yitzhak Shapira were killed. Moshe was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Ashdod. Survived by his parents, three sisters – Osnat, Ronit and Tali, and brother Yaniv. After his death, Moshe was promoted to captain. In a letter of consolation to the bereaved family, the unit commander wrote: “Moshe served in the unit as deputy operations officer, and he believed in the rightness of the road and thus radiated security to his surroundings … He had a high level of professionalism, , Serious, admired for his soldiers and commanders. ” The family members commemorated his name and remembered it in a Torah scroll that they donated to the “Tehillat Zion” synagogue in Ashdod. In a special certificate of appreciation received by the family after the fall of Moses, he said: “Moses saw his service as a mission and carried it with devotion and love … … always true and devoted, devoted himself to increasing the strength of the Israel Defense Forces.
