Levi, Moritz

Moritz, son of Yaffa and Shem Tov Levi, was born in Tiberias in 1978. Moritz joined the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Israel Prison Service, where he served as a counselor at the Nir School. On 25 Kislev, 2.12.2010, a fire broke out in the Carmel Forest, the Carmel Disaster, the largest fire of its kind in Israel’s history. A decision was made to evacuate the prisons. The bus transporting the prison personnel and prisoners caught fire. Forty-four men and women perished in the fire. Thirty-seven of them were cadets of the prison officers’ course and the course’s commanders, the bus driver, three firemen and three police officers. Moritz was thirty-two years old when he fell. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Tiberias. Survived by his parents and three brothers.