Moshe, Victor

Son of Aziza and Zion, was born on 23.11.1923 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. He received his Jewish education at home and his general education at the local gymnasium. At a young age, he managed to pass the London matriculation exams, but for a living he began to work as a government official. From 1941 he was active in the self-defense organization of the Jews of Baghdad and met with Enzo Sereni and other emissaries of the pioneering Palestine. Victor worked hard for the immigration of the Jews of Baghdad and the dissemination of the Zionist idea among them. He immigrated to Israel in 1943 and settled in Kibbutz Givat Brenner, where he joined the Haganah. Throughout his life, he yearned to increase his knowledge, and in 1947-1944 he fulfilled his passion by studying psychology, philosophy and ethics at the University of God in England. With the outbreak of the War of Independence after the United Nations General Assembly decided on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states, he decided to stop his studies and succeeded in arriving in Israel, where he served in the Golani Brigade and participated in battles in the Lower and Western Galilee. Moved to the Negev and took part in Operation Horev to eliminate the Egyptian invader On December 22, 1948, his armored unit encountered strong fire from the Egyptians, near the Imre strongholds, when she felt the need to help another unit. Victor was hit in the head and killed on the spot. Buried within limits. On the 16th of Av 5709 (August 11, 1949) he was put to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.