Lazar, Moshe-Yitzhak
Moshe-Yitzhak, son of Rachel and Yaakov Lazar, was born in Mezrit, Poland (then Russia). He studied in the “cheder” and from 1916 – in the Talmud Torah Tikkun. He immigrated to Israel in 1924. Moshe was accepted to Yeshiva in Jerusalem and continued his studies, but as he grew older he moved away from his family tradition and chose to follow the path of the new settlement. He studied printing for a few years and made a living as a worker in a printing press. The second step was joining the ranks of the Haganah, in which he held responsible positions and was later appointed as a member of the Jerusalem District Commanders. In the 1929 riots he was one of the defenders of the Old City. Moshe-Yitzhak was recruited to the Etzioni Brigade. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy gunfire at it. Some of the vehicles managed to get out and return, but two buses, an ambulance and an escort vehicle were ambushed. Moshe-Yitzhak was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem.
