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Moshe Weinberg (“Perry”)

Moshe Weinberg (“Perry”)


Moshe, son of Dov and Esther Weinberg, was born to his parents on March 21, 1933, in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. In 1949, after graduating from the Hungarian Gymnasium, he joined Kibbutz Ramat Rachel and later moved to Givat Haim, where he worked in mechanical engineering and completed a technical drawing course, and worked hard as a tractor engineer during the day and at night learned until he reached the rank of senior technician at the Haifa Bay factory. He studied music and was a member of the drama club at Kibbutz Givat Haim and was drafted into the IDF on September 1, 1951. The pre-Six Day War alert staff was trained in artillery and he was the commander of an anti-tank unit in the Tel-Dan area. On the second day of the fighting, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he fell on guard duty from a direct hit by the Syrians in a battle in Tel Dan. He left a wife and two daughters. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. His friends and acquaintances note his gentleness, his spirit and his devotion to his family. They remember him as a lover of life, striving to advance in life and willing to help all those who accompany him in the way of his life.

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