Safonov, Moshe (Marko)

Was born on May 28, 1925 in Tel Aviv, and his family, the Amal family, and his neighborhood, the Mahlul neighborhood on the shores of Tel Aviv, passed through his childhood and youth. He was an excellent athlete, a swimmer, and a fisherman, and was forced to stop his studies and start working to support his economically impoverished family, even though he had a penchant for literary writing and dreamed of it To his last day, at a very young age he enlisted in the British army, first as a driver and later as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, in his engineering corps. In the wake of the War of Independence, following the UN General Assembly’s decision to partition the country, Moshe was on the front line, among the defenders of the Haganah, School Neighborhoods. After a period of difficult battles he moved to the Nachshon operation, participated in the battles of the Castel, in the battles of the convoys, and later was transferred to the engineering corps as a sabotage. On behalf of the Engineering Corps, he joined the Givati ​​Brigade and participated in the battles of Operation Yoav to break through the Negev. After the destruction of the north-west wing of the Egyptian army, Moshe was killed in a mine attack between Yavneh and Ashdod, on the 19 th of November 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.