Lazarovitz, Moshe

Son of Hava and Eliezer. Born in 1898 in Petach Tikvah, he studied in an elementary school in the settlement and after his studies worked as an agricultural laborer, after the British conquest of Eretz Israel, following the call of the national institutions to the police. He was also considered an outstanding officer and was praised in the book “Abir Hagalil” by Douglas Duff for the Palestine Police, and in 1935 he joined the Haganah and was active in the B’nai Brith Order. On 20 Av, August 17, 1938, he was kidnapped with his wife Bruria, his wife’s brothers, and their three children from the family’s apartment in the Atlit prison. The kidnappers released the children but murdered the three adults. Moshe was 40 years old when he fell. It was not until 1963 that the remains of the bodies were found by Major Shlomo Ben Elkana in a pit near Ein Hod on Mount Carmel and they were laid to rest in a common grave in the Rishon Lezion cemetery.