Paulson, Moshe

Son of Malka and Yehuda. He was born on December 6, 1917 in Scotland. As a child he moved with his family to Montreal, Canada, where Moshe began his studies and his father was deeply connected to Judaism and Zionist consciousness. On the advice of his father, he also went to agricultural training in the farm of a farmer nearby. When he was 16 years old, he first heard about aliyah from the United States to Eretz Israel and a year later went on a training course at the Heightston Farm in the United States. In 1936, he immigrated to Israel and joined the “Sharon Group” which later merged with Ramat David in the Jezreel Valley. In due course, he was among the participants in the “Tower and Stockade” settlements of Tirat Zvi and Hanita. In 1941 he was among the first immigrants to the lands of Naama in the Upper Galilee (later Kfar Blum). As a friend’s testimony: “Modesty and love for others were his way of life, he did not seek physical happiness, but he was able to take full sips of happiness in his purest sense.” In January 1941 he joined the British Army, the Engineering Corps and was attached to the Tractor Company. He spent a long time in the Western Desert and later, during the Allied invasion of Syria, was transferred to serve there. On 19 Cheshvan, November 17, 1943, he was killed in a car accident while in Syria, and was put to rest at a military ceremony in Beirut. He left a father and a sister. After his death, his friends from Kfar Blum put out a booklet and pages in his memory. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteering”.