Moas, Mordechai (“Mizrahi”)
Son of Avraham and Levana. He was born on the 24th of Adar I 1929 in Acre. During the 1936 riots, his parents were forced to move from Akko to Kiryat Motzkin, where he studied at the elementary school in the Kirya and then studied the professions of carpentry and mechanics so that he could help support the family. He was daring in attracting the enemy to cover his comrades for battle and always managed to get out, and he was cheerful by nature and smiling, and so he bought him many friends: In 1947 he was arrested by the British and imprisoned. In the detention camp in Latrun, where he stayed for about a year and a half, and was released only after the Mandate was released, and enlisted in the Givati Brigade “As a symbol of mortars in Negba, Julis, Ibidis, and at the breakthrough to the Negev. In face-to-face combat with the Egyptian enemy he showed courage. Until one day they fell among the Givati Brigade. Of all the dangers he faced, he came out safely. After the liberation of the Negev from the Egyptian invader he was transferred to the borders of the Triangle and from time to time he was sent to peace talks with representatives of the Arab Legion, And in a friendly conversation with the Legionnaires near Maanit, after he and his friend were on their way back, both were shot and so fell on duty while carrying out his duties; This was on Wednesday, June 1, 1949. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.
