Kleinwald, Moshe

Son of Binyamin-Ze’ev and Devorah. Was born on 19.6.1955 in Jerusalem, where his parents immigrated from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War, as Holocaust survivors who lost all their family members. Moshe grew up and was educated in a observant home. After completing his elementary studies, he moved to the Himmelpark High School in Beit VaGan, and after four years completed his studies in a humanistic track, Moshe was a nice, lively and very friendly boy. He was looking for ways to help close and distant people, and the verse could be applied to him in Tehillim 15:2, “He who walks uprightly and acts righteously and speaks truth in his heart.” From the age of 10 Moshe was an active member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement in Jerusalem and took part in summer camps and movement seminars. When he was 15, he was already a counselor in the movement. After the liberation of East Jerusalem he established the Bnei Akiva branch in Ramat Eshkol, and until the time he was drafted he concentrated the activities of the branch, and he did so, as usual, with devotion and dedication. Moshe devoted much of his time to holy studies and read many books about medieval Jewish history and the Holocaust period. However, he did not neglect physical education and took part in various sporting events, such as the 35th, Jerusalem marches, etc. When he reached the army, Moshe joined the Tzurim Sa’ad settlement group and served in the paratroop brigade. He was sent to the Egyptian front in July 1973, when he returned to the Egyptian front and foresaw the horrors of the war, and returned to complete the training, and when he was working to accept and wear the paratroopers’ wings, On the 15th of Tammuz 5733 (5.7.1974), he fell and was brought to eternal rest in the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, and left behind his parents, a sister and a brother.