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Neiman, Avraham-Moshe

Neiman, Avraham-Moshe


Son of Hinda Yenta and Rabbi David Schwab was born on the 7th of Tishrei 5710 (7.10.1900) in the town of Zyrdów, Poland to a family of Hasidic scholars and received a strict ultra-Orthodox education. And the Balfour Declaration joined the “Mizrahi Youth.” He read the secular Yiddish literature with passion, and his relationship with his family worsened when he became an active Zionist activist, and his pious family, especially his father, saw it as a “deviation from The right path. “Avraham-Moshe aspired to leave the town and immigrate to Israel, and on June 2, 1926 he arrived in Jerusalem, during which he was active in the Haganah in Jerusalem (in the Makor Haim neighborhood and in the Old City) and later in Tel Aviv. He moved to Tel Aviv with his wife and daughter to live in Tel Aviv and was a regular member of the “Herut” cooperative in 1933. He was a member of the Labor movement and a member of the Palestine Workers’ Party. Avraham-Moshe was a veteran member of the Haganah and devoted his Lev and soul to it.In the War of Independence after the UN General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 on the partition of the country into two states, he took part in guard operations. After a few days of guard duty and continuous work, he was given a vacation, but could not sit at home and guarded his position on the Tel Aviv border where he fell on 20 December 1947. He was buried in Nachalat Yitzhak, On September 23, 1954, was transferred to the eternal military cemetery at the site.

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