Kolodoni, Moshe

Son of Taibeh and Isser. Born in 1915 in Pinsk, in White Russia to a family of eight, he immigrated to Palestine at the age of ten, with the younger children to join the older ones, who had immigrated a few years earlier. They settled in Hadera and Moshe attended school there. He joined the “HaPoel” sports association at the age of seventeen and joined the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz of Eretz Israel, which trained itself in Petach Tikvah and later immigrated with his friends to Eilon in the Upper Galilee. He invested much thought and labor in the design and construction of a suitable stone clearance machine. He also worked with public figures who dealt with this issue, and he also planned other agricultural machines. For some time he served as a patrolman in Kiryat Anavim, where he devoted considerable energy to planning a plan for the loading of machinery for security needs. At the beginning of World War II, he enlisted in the British army and served in an Israeli battery of anti-aircraft guns, and in the course of his service rose to the rank of corporal. In order to include this program he received a special leave and was in contact with the Technion in Haifa. He served in the Artillery Corps for a period of time in Cyprus and was also involved in arms smuggling to the Hagana. Later he was transferred to the Engineering Corps, where he continued this operation for the Haganah. On 17 Cheshvan, November 3, 1944, Moshe was killed in a car accident in Egypt. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Genifa. He left his mother, brothers and sisters. His name was immortalized in the book “With All Their Might.”