Teper, Moshe

Moshe, son of Bracha and Nachman, was born on 27.6.1942 in Bnei Brak. He studied at an elementary school in Bnei Brak and later continued his studies at the Mikveh Israel High School and at the Kibbutz Ashdot-Ya’akov High School (Meuhad). Moshe loved reading, especially books dealing with the history of the land. He had a phenomenal memory, and whatever he read was in his private details. But most of all he loved the basketball game and put all his attention into it. He is a member of the basketball team of Ashdot Afikim and organized, in the Jordan Valley, basketball teams for seven-year-olds. When he was in Holon, he managed the youth basketball team as part of the Hapoel team and was a member of the National Basketball Association. Moshe was always attracted to public work and to his work. On behalf of the agriculture, he was sent to the north of the country, to take care of the youth and study and help the underprivileged classes there. He spent a month on a mission abroad on behalf of Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed. Moshe was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in August 1960 and assigned to the Medical Corps, where he participated in a course for combat medics in 1961. In 1961 he took part in a raid on the Golan Heights and in other operations across the border “Moshe fulfilled his role to the satisfaction of his commanders.” After a few years of unrelenting search and exhaustion, Moshe left the kibbutz and went to live in Ein Gedi, where he served as the administrative director of a field school. With the sons of Ashdot Yaakov after he left the farm, Moshe was a curious but very realistic man who always sought the practical solution He was a stubborn, strong-willed, vigorous, energetic person, not arrogant, disdainful of arrogance, far from ostentatious, modest in nature, loving simplicity, and Simcha with his lot. Moshe was loved and loved by his son, and when the Yom Kippur War broke out, Moshe was drafted and sent with his unit to the front in Sinai, where he participated in the battles of containment and break-up in the company of Major General Arik Sharon. On October 18, 1973, as his unit advanced on a “spider” axis, leading from a flight to the north of the bitter lake, the only one caught was enemy fire. A shell hit Moshe and he was killed on the spot. He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. He left behind a wife and son, a father and a brother. After his fall, he was promoted to sergeant. In a letter of condolence to the bereaved family, his commander wrote: “We will always remember Moshe as a devoted medic who exploited his talent and resourcefulness while providing medical treatment to the victims of the war until the day he fell in battle heroically.” The Jordan Valley Regional Council published a pamphlet in memory of the residents of the moshav who fell in the war, and Moshe among them.