Robin, Moshe

Son of Dvora and Yitzhak-David, was born in 1912 in Brisk, Lithuania. When he was six years old, he was circumcised by his mother. He studied in the room during his early life, but after a short time he moved to a Hebrew school in his hometown. While he was bar mitzvah, he worked in various jobs assigned to him in his father’s tanning factory. During a period of economic depression, Moshe was forced to work on whatever work he found to help support the family. In his youth, he moved to Lodz, where he joined the Hechalutz movement, and as part of this movement underwent training for immigration to Palestine. In 1933 Moshe immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa. In the early years he worked in the building, but after studying the profession, he moved to work at Solel Boneh in various jobs, all of which were considered “occupation work”: paving roads, constructing barbed wire fences on the northern roads, Moshe joined the ranks of the Haganah in Haifa and even the “HaSarden” and “HaPoel” companies. On December 8, 1947, Moshe traveled in a truck of Kibbutz Gvat and as they passed by the Arab village of Balad-Sheikh (now Tel Hanan) the road was blocked by a roadblock set up by Arab rioters who murdered Moshe and Bezalel Schwarzczuk, who was traveling in a truck. Moshe was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa. In Nesher, a monument was erected in memory of the fallen, and its name is even commemorated in the memorial room there. Moshe won the affection of his friends because of his goodness and easy nature.