Noskovitz, Moshe

He was born in 1921 in the town of Zdunska-Wola near Lodz, Poland. His family was affluent and the house was steeped in Jewish tradition. Moshe was a naughty boy, cheerful and lively. When he was about nine years old, he joined the “Haoved Hazioni” movement in his city and went through all the stages: from Hanoch, to the member of the leadership of the nest. In 1939 he went with his comrades to a training farm in Czestochowa. In 1941, at the height of World War II, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and went to study at the educational institution in the settlement of Magdiel. He was a student in the first class of the Mossad, became fond of his friends and also distinguished himself in leadership skills. A year later, he left Magdiel, joined the members of his movement who were in the Hadar group and from there immigrated with the first members to settle in Nitzanim in the south. Aside from his work in the economy, he served as a policeman in the southern region, and as usual he fulfilled this role with enthusiasm and great devotion. During this period he married and both were the first couple in the new settlement. On 29 Tamuz, July 20, 1944, while he was in a guard course, he was killed along with two other members of the Nitzanim group who were with him in a course in a traffic accident on the Moshav road of Beer Tuvia. He was brought with his two friends to burial in the cemetery in Nitzanim. He left a wife and daughter who was born after his death.