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Moshkovitz, Avihu (“Avi”)

Moshkovitz, Avihu (“Avi”)


Son of Zvi and Matilda. He was born on December 9, 1936 in Tel Aviv. Graduated from the ORT vocational high school. He belonged to the Scouts movement. Showed strong inclination to drawing and drawing. Out of love for others he was willing to encourage friends, take care of friends, reconcile adversaries, and counsel as a man with life experience. Despite being humble and modest in his conduct, he was endowed by his persistence as an aviation officer. Everything he did and planned was not for personal benefit but for the family and the country. His decision was to continue his studies at the Hebrew University of Haifa in the field of architecture, but as long as he served in the army, where he served under the permanent army contract, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the task ahead. He participated in the Sinai Campaign and on 7 February 1957 he fell in the line of duty, and his monument was erected in the missing section of the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the memory of his father, a cigar-shaped chessboard was placed in a clubhouse in Tel Aviv, in which a helmet was placed from the sea by fishermen not far from where it plunged into the sea. He was named the winner of the competition in light athletics, and was awarded a prize for the winner of a simultaneous game of the shachat, which was one of his hobbies: In December 2007, In the class, a model of his plane was prepared in memory of the squadron fighters in which he served as a pilot.

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