Mizrachi, Moshe
Son of Rachel and Aharon, was born on 15.10.1932 in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. In 1934, at the age of two, the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. Here he completed an urban elementary school and immediately entered the labor force to relieve the parents of the burden of supporting the family. In 1946 he was hired as a clerk at the Bitzur company in Tel Aviv and remained in his place of employment until joining the IDF, and was a loyal member of the “Noar Haoved” youth movement and at the age of 12 he joined Gadna. All his spare time, especially the evenings, was devoted to the job. Moshe volunteered for service and he was 16 years old. He was stationed in the Givati Brigade and participated in all its activities. Twice he was wounded and recovered and returned to combat service. Took on dangerous roles. One of his friends asked him, “Moshe, why you?” He answered simply: “When you go, you go.” On the 19th of Tishrei, 5709 (22.10.1948), in the Battle of Regiment 7, one of the Egyptian “Burma Road” authorities, south of Katya, suffered a serious wound. The members carried him on their arms eight kilometers to the hospital in the village of Bilu, but all the doctors’ efforts to save him were in vain, and on that dead night he was laid to rest in the Warburg military cemetery.
