Mossinsohn, Dr. David

Son of Sonya and Dr. Ben-Zion, was born on March 22, 1906, in Bern, Switzerland. He immigrated to Israel with his family and settled in Tel Aviv, where he studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium Herzliya, In the course of his studies, he was active in Hatzofim and also in the Haganah, and after completing his year of service and studies in the agricultural school in Mikveh Israel, he went to Holland where he took care of the cows. He traveled to Scotland and to the University of Glasgow, where he received his doctorate as a veterinary specialist, and in Glasgow he was the founder and operator of the local branch of the “Naim”. In 1931, he returned to Israel, where he worked at the experimental station in Rehovot and then worked in Binyamina and Rishon Letzion, where he served as a chief physician in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and eventually became a veterinarian in the Jezreel Valley. In this role, he also revealed a thorough professional knowledge, dedication and willingness to benefit the general public, Jews and Arabs alike, and in the very days of the bloody riots that began in 1936, he continued to travel to the Arab villages and to help those who knew their language and customs well. In addition to his work, he was active in the “Ha-Po’el” association in the city and was involved in matters of security and settlement in the area. As part of this activity, on 18 Elul, September 14, 1938, Chaim Shturman and Aharon Etkin, leaders of the Haganah, decided to locate the new settlements of Kfar Ruppin and Neve Eitan in the Beit She’an Valley. On the way from Tel Amal to Tirat Zvi, their vehicle boarded a mine hidden in a tar barrel, and all three were killed on the spot. David was brought to eternal rest in the defense and immigration section of the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery near Tel Aviv. He left parents, a wife and son. In his eulogy by the open grave, his father said, among other things, “You have been blessed with your death, my son, fulfilling your duty in peace and faith … We have raised you up in the spirit of loyalty and sacrifice to the people. If we had to start over, if we knew in advance what would happen in the end, we would do it again because that is the real way. ” The name of the three fallen soldiers is memorialzed in the pool near the Sahana “Gan Hashlosha”.