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Rosenzweig, Moshe

Rosenzweig, Moshe


Moshe (Raz), son of Malka and Shmuel, was born on April 11, 1951. He grew up in Kfar Ata surrounded by great love, and after finishing elementary school at the “Gordon” school in Kiryat Ata, He decided to try his strength in the military boarding school of the Reali School, because he had taken the challenge, and out of dozens of candidates, Moshe was in the chosen group, who had passed the difficult tests. He was a cute, blue-eyed young man with a healthy sense of humor, devoted to his family with all his Lev, a lover of art, and enjoyed every activity. At the boarding school, in the social track, and before him a period of service in the IDF, which he happily expected. Moshe was drafted into the IDF at the beginning of August 1969 and was promoted to the rank of corporal and was assigned to the Armored Corps, and soon he completed a course for the Armored Corps, Tank Commanders Course, Officers Course, and Armored Officers Course. Warns the IDF. He volunteered to continue serving in the army until 1975. In the opinion of his commanders, it was said: “A commander who has the ability, has good control over people, diligent and entrepreneurial, loyal to his commanders and subordinates, a talented officer.” Moshe was sent to a course for company commanders and was appointed deputy commander of a company in the Armored Corps. At the end of 1972 his mother died and he felt that his obligation to his father precedes any other obligation. In May 1973, he married his girlfriend Yaffa and the two of them lived in Kiryat Ata, where he taught at the military boarding school for only four months, and when the Yom Kippur War broke out, In the midst of the storm of the battle under heavy fire, Moshe commanded his unit in a quiet voice, and in the midst of a heavy fire, Moshe commanded his unit in a quiet voice At six in the evening, his tank was hit and he was wounded above the eye On October 9, 1973, at dawn, the enemy’s assault was renewed, and at the end of the battle Moshe was hit in the shoulder by a heavy blow. To rescue the battalion commander and his wounded crew, and at the end of which the enemy was stopped, Moshe was injured for the third time, and managed to escape from the burning tank, but died in the hospital on October 9, 1973. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery In Haifa. He left behind a wife, father, and sister. After his fall, he was awarded the Medal of Valor for his heroism on the battlefield. The certificate reads: “Capt. Moshe Rosenzweig was a company commander in a tank battalion that fought in the Golan Heights, and during the War of Containment he fought exemplary and continued to fight even after he was wounded above Ein and then on the shoulder. Head of the battalion’s rescue operation. He entered the Syrian-controlled area and rescued the battalion commander and his crew, who were hit by a direct hit, and was killed in the third and killed, and the late Moshe Rosenzweig was an example of a commander and a member of the battlefield. He was awarded the Medal of Valor for this act. “His memoirs were published in the” In Memoriam “of the graduates of the Reali School, who fell in battle.

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