Moskowitz, Jacob

Yaakov, son of Tova and Aharon, was born on 15 August 1947 in Hadera, where he studied at the Bar-Ilan religious elementary school in Kfar Saba and continued his studies at the religious state school ” He was a good-hearted student, always willing to help others and a loyal and devoted son to his parents, after hours – His studies dealt with everything he could do to help his parents support the family, and by nature he was cheerful, sociable, and loved by everyone he knew, and when he was nineteen, he married his girlfriend Rebecca and a year later his firstborn son was born. He was a loyal husband and devoted father, caring for his children, who worked in transporting goods for most of the day, and was rewarded with the appreciation of his friends and acquaintances, who was drafted into the IDF at the end of November 1967 and assigned to the infantry. After basic training he was released from regular service due to his marital status, and was assigned to a unit in the Jerusalem Brigade. As part of his reserve service he was trained in a training course for mortars and was appointed to kill medium mortars. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yaakov served in reserve duty in the “Oracle” stronghold in the northern sector of the Suez Canal. On the eve of the war, he was attached to Battalion 68, whose soldiers held strongholds along the Suez Canal and absorbed the huge wave of the Egyptians’ attack. Jacob and his friends bravely protected the stronghold from Egyptian army soldiers, who were attacked by wavewaves until it fell to the enemy. On the 7th of Tishrei 5740 (7.10.1973), the day of the fall, Jacob was hit by a grenade and was killed. At first he was declared missing and later as a space whose burial place was unknown. Only in May 1975 was his body returned and he was brought to eternal rest in the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. He left behind a wife, son and daughter, father, mother, brother and sister. After his fall, he was promoted to corporal. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “Yaakov fought with great courage and fell in defense of his comrades and his home on the home front.