Rosenfeld, Moshe

Son of Shoshana and Shlomo Yitzhak. He was born on November 26, 1904 in Menahemia. His grandfather Moshe was a pioneer, one of the first immigrants in 1883. He was one of the founders of Rosh Pina, and his older brother fell in the moshava of Nehemiah in Tel Aviv at the age of seventeen. Moshe completed his studies at the village school and later moved to the agricultural school in Mikvah Israel. His friends called him “the crown of the rollers.” He was respectable to everyone and made peace between quarrels. Moshe volunteered for “The Book Soldier” and after four years of service moved to the Palestine Police, where he served for 12 years in Rosh Pina, Beer Sheva, Halisa, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Beit Dajan, Petach Tikvah and more. In his last position, with the rank of sergeant, he was in charge of the police in Shata in the Harod bloc. He was modest in his ways, devoted to his role, a model for the old and a guide to the new. He sported enthusiastically and won eight awards. At the end of 1934, Moshe was preparing to leave the police force and embark on civilian life, but the people of Harod and the Yishuv emissaries asked him to remain on duty. Moshe was a peacemaker with an unshakable energy and brokered peace between a Jewish settlement and an Arab village that had quarreled between them, but he was hardened in his pursuit of rioters and criminals. At the beginning of the events of 1938, a gang of Sheikh al-Qassem who assassinated Jewish residents and damaged orchards and fields raged in the area, and Moshe decided to capture it. Riding on his horse in the direction of the Gilboa, he followed the rioters. Moshe fell in the performance of his duties on 11 Cheshvan, 7.11.1935 and was brought to eternal rest in the Tel Yosef cemetery. He left a wife and two sons, parents and brothers. In the father’s eulogy at his son’s grave “Moshe, you did not fall from your brother Zvi, you built a bridge between the Jordan Valley and the Jezreel Valley, you fell on the Gilboa Mountains.” His friends published a booklet in his memory and it said: “Well-dressed, stocky, upright and pleasant facial expression, eye overlooking the ancient Hebrew confidence. A humble man, humble in his ways, compassionate and responsive to all who suffer. He had a strong hatred for anything arrogant, every tyrant who walked on the heads of people, and a strong love for honesty, justice and peace.” In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, the British police superintendent Saunders wrote:” Moshe, who was one of the officers’ deputy officers in the police force, was respected by all of them, and he knew how to deal with them, the officers and policemen together and his loss will be felt by all of us.” His name was also immortalized in the books” Blood and Fire – the 1936-1938 Events” and “Settlement in the Lower Galilee.”