Marzuk, Moshe (Gil)

Moshem son of Rachel (nee Menashe) and Lito (Eli) Ibrahim. He was born in Cairo on December 21, 1926. Every Shabbat he attended prayers in the synagogue of his Karaite community, and sat next to his grandfather, Moshe son of Avraham Menashe. He was recruited to Unit 131 of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Corps in 1952. In the summer of 1954 members of the units of Unit 131 in Alexandria received orders to carry out sabotage operations in public facilities in it and in Cairo. They were soon discovered, captured, brutally interrogated, tried in a show trial, and most of them were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Moshe Marzuk and Shmuel Azar were sentenced to death by hanging. On January 31, 1955, both of them were hanged in Cairo, and before Moshe went to the gallows, Moshe said to the Karaite rabbi: “You all went there, you have no future here.” After their deaths, on April 19, 1977, the coffins of Moshe Marzuk and Shmuel Ezer were brought to Israel, and on the day after Independence Day (6th of Iyar, April 24) they were buried in the Martyrs Section at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.