Moshkovitz, Ben-Zion

Son of Adele and Shmuel was born on 12.11.1923 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, where he completed elementary school and later worked in a textile warehouse and was active in a Zionist youth movement. He was sentenced to six months in prison, and shortly after the end of his prison sentence and his release from prison, Romania was liberated from the occupation, and was sentenced to six months in prison. In 1944 he returned to work, studied weaving, and joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement When he joined the Romanian army, he informed his mother that after his hard labor in Romania he would no longer serve in the army but in the army of the Jewish people in his country. He joined Kibbutz Zikim near Rehovot, took part in social life and worked as much as possible to send aid to his family, and at the end of the winter of 1948, at the beginning of the War of Independence, worked in guarding and protecting Kibbutz Shamir on the Syrian border. A few days after the declaration of the state and the invasions of the Arab armies, he wrote to his parents: “You must also be Simcha with the recognition of the State of Israel, but this recognition did not come easily, and our struggle today is to turn this declaration into reality, Is worth the arms and equipment, until the weapons arrive, and after the victory we will start together with the new immigrants in the building of the homeland and towards a better future. ” son of-Zion served in a unit of the “Yiftah” Brigade (Palmach) and fell east of Ruchama on October 5, 1948. On the 15th of Cheshvan 5706 (15.11.1949) he was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.