Kaplan, Moshe

Son of Rivka and Eliahu, was born on May 5, 1916, in the city of Radzyloski, Lithuania, and immigrated to Israel in 1936 after graduating 6 classes in a Hebrew gymnasium and vocational school for mechanics and frameworks. And during his leisure time he spent a lot of time in the area and devoted his time to training at the Hapoel branch, where he took the burden of supporting the house, and volunteered for maintenance in Gush Katiba near Nes Tziona, Yazur-Beit-Dagon and reached the most dangerous places, and in 1938 moved to Moshav Even Yehudah and settled there, where he worked as a Hagana storekeeper. The head of the village council called him “a cute man from Even Yehuda.” With the establishment of the Naval Corps, he volunteered for his service and served there for 4 years as a sports instructor and a kapap (combat fighter) To-face). During the Notarization period, he acquired the electric profession through written lessons and reached a thorough knowledge of this subject. In his knowledge, he later used Haganah operations: installed spotlights and signaling devices, telephones, etc. He also completed a course for installing and operating electric mines. During the War of Independence he served in the Alexandroni Brigade. On Wednesday, 13.5.1948, he was sent with a company from Even Yehuda to a battle on Tira, near the village of Hess, where he fell, and a witness to the battle said that Moshe continued to storm forward even when the retreat began and fell with a weapon in his hand. Who had been married to him five months before his death.