Mizrachi, Moshe

Moshe, son of Simcha and Yaakov-Ovadia Mizrachi, was born on March 22, 1931 in Jerusalem, where he completed his studies in Talmud Torah for Sephardim in the Old City. In March 1948 he entered the Old City with a convoy of food. Moshe was among the first of the Jewish reinforcements that broke into the Old City from the outside and raised an Israeli flag on the Zion Gate. When the Arabs broke into Karaite Street and raised their flag on the Tiferet- Israel “(Nissan Beck) synagogue, Moshe succeeded in lowering the flag of the enemy, but was hit by a bullet and fell on May 20, 1948. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of fallen soldiers in the Jewish Quarter On Jerusalem and were brought for burial on the Mount of Olives.