Silberstein, Moshe

Son of Sarah and Aryeh, was born on the night of 29/11/1930 in Tel Aviv, when a curfew was imposed on the city because of the traditional annual ferment in Jaffa on the occasion of the Balfour Declaration Day. At the “Tachkemoni” school he joined the Religious Scouts and continued to work there when he studied general frameworks and mechanics at the Max Payne Professional School. At ‘Eida, he was required to take a course for instructors and to act as a guide, and in his humility and unwillingness to command, he returned to the ranks of the trainees. The Haganah pre-joined its members in the community and when they joined the organization, he requested and obtained his transfer to their unit. He went through all the stages of the service, to an ordinary member of the Haganah, and in the course of his activity he was diagnosed with arthritis of the legs, But these pains could not prevent him from fulfilling his obligations. On the night of 29.11.1947, on the night of the UN General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country into two states, he went to defend the school neighborhoods and once he took part in escorting a convoy, but he refused to obey the doctor’s instructions for several days (Mortars and machine guns) and served for a while in the auxiliary company of the Givati ​​Brigade in Sarona and was supposed to be sent as a machine gunner in the reinforcements of the religious company to Kfar Etzion when the doctor and the family tried to prevent him from doing so “He replied categorically, pointing to a photograph of his uncle’s children:” We are fighting for these, for the better of them. ” Kfar-Etzion tried to conceal from his parents the effort exerted on him and to calm them down: Moshe worked as a No. 1 officer next to a machine gun and spent days and nights in constant vigilance to exhaustion because of lack of sleep. He went to sleep in the Russian monastery and was attacked by a group of soldiers who crawled back to the enemy for hours on end, until a British shell blew him up and the machinegun barrel in his hand, and fell on the 5th of Nissan 5708 (August 4, 1948). 1948) and was buried in Kfar Etzion. On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949) he was transferred to the eternal military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.