Mizrachi, Moshe (Moshiko)

Moshe (Moshiko), son of Chana and Ephraim Mizrachi, was born in 1928 in Haifa, grew up in Afula and attended elementary school there. Due to the poor economic situation of the family, he was forced to leave to work at an early age. From a young age he was a member of the Haganah. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he refused to enjoy the right of an employee in essential service (the post office), and enlisted. At first he was employed to listen to the enemy’s secret broadcasts, but insisted that he be transferred to a combat unit. He was stationed in the Golani Brigade, which was transferred to the Negev prior to Operation Horev, and was a radio operator in a jeep and a machine gunner,. Moshe fell near Rafah on 3 Tevet, January 4, 1949. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Tiberias.