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Rachamim, Moshe (Shvo, Szabo)

Rachamim, Moshe (Shvo, Szabo)


Son of Esther and Matityahu, was born on 12.4.1927 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, where he studied for seven years in a Hebrew school and later in the Gymnasium, was a Zionist from his childhood and a member of Maccabi. He survived the horrors of the Second World War, and in February 1946 he arrived in Israel as part of the Youth Aliya and joined a group of Bulgarian youth in Kfar Giladi, who was quiet and humble in speech and action. Of the kibbutz, and saw the success of his group’s enterprise as his own personal interest, which he was responsible for, tried to correct and improve, and every failure or mistake caused him pain. His group joined Kibbutz Ayal (Dardera) near Qalqiliya from the beginning of its founding, and continued there on its way to the village of Kfar Giladi and was the conscience, or “the tzaddik “When the emergency order was issued for difficult events that appeared on the horizon and his comrades were busy working unproductive in defensive digs, he would say to them:” Friends, you will still be blessed for every digging you dug! “And as the war drew closer to the spot, he bravely stood there day and night. On his last day, 16 Tammuz 5708 (July 16, 1948), he demanded to prepare a night party for the evening, saying: “War, war, but we do not have to stop our normal lives.” He was hit by an enemy shell. On July 13, 1951, he was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya, and his memory was placed in the memorial booklet of Kibbutz Eyal.

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