Moshkovitch, Zvi

Son of Michal and Yehiel was born in 1916 in the city of Sarnitsa near Chost, Czechoslovakia. He attended high school and “yeshiva” in Khust. Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1940 and joined the religious Kibbutz Hefetz Chaim. He was alone in the country. From his family in Hungary, only two sisters survived. Zvi served in the religious guard unit in Daughter of Galim, Haifa. In the summer of 1942 he moved to the coastal guard company in Atlit and with the dismantling of the coastal guard in 1944. He joined the Jewish settlement police and served in the youth village near Kfar Hasidim for several years. He was active in the Hagana, a guide and commander. After the end of the War of Independence, after the United Nations General Assembly decided on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states, he joined the Tel Aviv police force. He was posted as a platoon commander in one of the battalions in the “Kiryati” Brigade and participated in many operations in the south of Tel Aviv. He had a Yaffa appearance, solid character, pleasant singing (in the camp would pass before the box on Saturdays), and a good friend. Zvi fell in Tzrifin on Wednesday (11.6.1948) during a surprise attack on his class by Arabs who were hiding in the orchard, trying to rescue a wounded friend and was brought to rest in the Nachlat Yitzhak military cemetery.