Levanon, Moshe-Yosef

Son of Yaffa and Eliahu-Yehoshua, was born on October 4, 1930 in Jerusalem. His childhood was spent in Hebron, where he drew on the atmosphere of ancient Hebrew tradition surrounding it. When the family moved to Haifa, he became acquainted with the new side and the building of the Land of Israel. In Haifa he attended elementary school and when the family moved to Jerusalem, he was accepted to clerical work. After a short time, he lost his life in the city and joined the Palmach, where he spent a lot of time in agricultural fields and devoted himself to agricultural work and military training, and spent a short time at Ayelet Hashahar and said to build his home in Ein HaShofet in the Efraim Mountains. – Independence accompanied caravans from the north to the south, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, from Tel Aviv to the Negev, took part in a Palmach unit in Wadi Ara, was wounded and could not return to its base. He hid all night and only in the morning was discovered by an enemy unit. Before the Arabs approached him, he managed to blow up his Bren machine gun and left himself only a pistol, in which he fought the enemies and fell, on the 27th of Adar 5748 (March 27, 1948), after standing on his soul until his last breath. He was buried in Givat Haim. At the request of his parents, he was placed at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on 28 February 1950. His brother Jacob-Shevach, who was two years older than him, also fell in the War of Independence. In memory of the two, their father published a memorial book: “bushes like cedar trees.” The memory of Moshe-Yosef was also commemorated by the designation of “Giv’at Moshe” on the hilltop of the Karkur police force, which was conquered from the Arabs.